Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
• 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 ...
The average size of sperm whales has decreased over the years, probably due to pressure from whaling. [35] Another view holds that exploitation by overwhaling had virtually no effect on the size of the bull sperm whales, and their size may have actually increased in current times on the basis of density dependent effects. [47]
Size comparison of an average human and a pygmy sperm whale (Kogia breviceps) This W3C-unspecified vector image was created with Inkscape . Size comparison of an average human and a dwarf sperm whale (Kogia sima).
File:Sperm whale male and female size.svg. Add languages. ... English: Size comparison of a male and female sperm whale with a human (16m, 11m, 1.75m repsectively).
Scientists studying the sperm whales that live around the Caribbean island of Dominica have described for the first time the basic elements of how they might be talking to each other, in an effort ...
Size comparison of an average human and a pygmy sperm whale (Kogia breviceps) Date: 19 May 2007 ... Description={{Inkscape}}Size comparison of an average human and a ...
The whale was measured at about 44 feet (13 meters) long, roughly the size of a large school bus. It weighs as much as 70,000 pounds (31,700 kilograms), officials said. ... Sperm whales are listed ...
By the 18th century, the Azores’ resident population of sperm whales was drawing attention from the United States. Whaling ships from Nantucket and New Bedford, Massachusetts, would make the ...