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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 23 January 2025. Large baleen whale species Humpback whale Temporal range: 7.2–0 Ma Pre๊ ๊ O S D C P T J K Pg N Late Miocene – Recent Size compared to an average human Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) CITES Appendix I (CITES) Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom ...
Sperm whale and bottlenose whale. The sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) is the largest species of toothed whale, with adult bulls (males) growing to be about 15–18 m (49–59 ft) long, and weighing about 45–70 metric tons (44–69 long tons; 50–77 short tons).
There are approximately 89 [8] living species split into two parvorders: Odontoceti or toothed whales (containing porpoises, dolphins, other predatory whales like the beluga and the sperm whale, and the poorly understood beaked whales) and the filter feeding Mysticeti or baleen whales (which includes species like the blue whale, the humpback ...
Size comparison between the sperm whale (blue), the pygmy sperm whale (green), and the dwarf sperm whale (orange) The dwarf sperm whale can range in size from 2 to 2.7 m (6.6 to 8.9 ft) in length and 136 to 272 kg (300 to 600 lb) in weight—less than the 4.25 m (14 ft) and 417 kg (920 lb) pygmy sperm whale.
Size Picture Humpback whale: Megaptera novaeangliae Borowski, 1781: LC: 84,000 25–30 t (28–33 short tons) Genus Eschrichtius Gray, 1864 – one species Common name Scientific name Status Population Distribution Size Picture Gray whale: Eschrichtius robustus Lilljeborg, 1861: LC: 21,000 [19] 15–40 t (17–44 short tons)
• Newborn sperm whales are between 3.7 to 4.3 meters (12 to 14 ft) in length. [1] • Sperm whales exhibit a large amount of sexual dimorphism with their size and proportions, with males generally being much larger than females. Female sperm whales are sexually mature at 8 to 9 meters (26 to 30 ft) in length, and physically mature at about 10 ...
For dramatic effect, Melville asserts inaccurately that the sperm whale is the largest creature on Earth. While the blue whale, the true largest whale, was not well-observed at that time, the fin-back whale, the second-largest whale species, was known to whalers and occasionally hunted. The sperm whale is the third-largest whale species. II.
Humphrey the Whale is a humpback whale that twice deviated from his Mexico to Alaska migration by entering San Francisco Bay. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] This behavior is unusual for a humpback whale, and Humphrey attracted wide media attention when entering the bay in both 1985 and 1990.