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  2. Moby Dick (whale) - Wikipedia

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    The animal's exact dimensions are never given, but the novel claims that the largest sperm whales can reach a length of 90 ft (27 m) [2] (larger than any officially recorded sperm whale) [3] and that Moby Dick is possibly the largest sperm whale that ever lived.

  3. Cetology of Moby-Dick - Wikipedia

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    The sperm whale is the third-largest whale species. II. Right whale (several species of the genus Eubalaena of the family Balaenidae), also known simply as the Whale, the Greenland Whale, the Black Whale, the Great Whale. Melville claims this whale was the first to be regularly hunted by human beings and is famously known for providing baleen ...

  4. Sperm whale - Wikipedia

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    The sperm whale or cachalot [a] (Physeter macrocephalus) is the largest of the toothed whales and the largest toothed predator. It is the only living member of the genus Physeter and one of three extant species in the sperm whale family, along with the pygmy sperm whale and dwarf sperm whale of the genus Kogia.

  5. Portal:Cetaceans - Wikipedia

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    Kogia pusilla is an extinct species of sperm whale from the Middle Pliocene of Italy. related to the modern-day dwarf sperm whale (K. sima) and pygmy sperm whale (K. breviceps). It is known from a single skull discovered in 1877, and was considered a species of beaked whale until 1997. The skull shares many characteristics with other sperm ...

  6. File:Sperm-Whale-Scale-Chart-SVG-Steveoc86.svg - Wikipedia

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    Male sperm whales are sexually mature at 11 to 12 meters (36 to 39 ft), and physically mature at about 15 to 16 meters (49 to 52 ft) in length, on average. Larger-than-average females have been generally recorded around 12 to 13 meters (39 to 43 ft), and larger-than-average males are usually stated to reach a maximum of about 18 to 19 meters ...

  7. File:Sperm whale head anatomy (transverse + sagittal).svg

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  8. Boaters left with ‘jaws gaping’ as two ‘titans of the ocean ...

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    Sperm whales are massive deep-sea predators with a gray body, pointed teeth and a block-like head. Naturaliste Charters shared a video of the rare encounter on Facebook on March 26. In the video ...

  9. Spermaceti - Wikipedia

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    Spermaceti is taken from the spermaceti organ (yellow) and junk (orange) within the sperm whale's head. Raw spermaceti is liquid within the head of the sperm whale, and is said to have a smell similar to raw milk. [8] It is composed mostly of wax esters (chiefly cetyl palmitate) and a smaller proportion of triglycerides. [9]