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

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    Tourists on a boat in Australia were left stunned as they watched a pod of orcas chase and attack a group of sperm whales. A rare video shows the “titans of the ocean” battling.

  3. Woman Captures Rare Video of Sperm Whales ‘Cuddling’ and ...

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    And sperm whales function as a family, "Sperm whales are often spotted in groups (called pods) of some 15 to 20 animals. Pods include females and their young, while males may roam solo or move ...

  4. Dwarf sperm whale - Wikipedia

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    The dwarf sperm whale is a suction feeder that mainly eats squid, and does this in small pods of typically one to four members. It is preyed upon by the killer whale (Orcinus orca) and large sharks such as the great white shark (Carcharodon carcharius). When startled, the whale can eject a cloud of red-brown fluid.

  5. Orca pods combine to hunt sea creature off California. See ...

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    For 50 minutes, multiple pods of orcas worked together, hunting off the California coast. Two orcas, the matriarchs among the group of about 30 whales, on April 2 circled a 20-foot-long minke ...

  6. Cetacean intelligence - Wikipedia

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    Brain of the sperm whale, considered the largest brain in the animal kingdom. Sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) have the largest known brain mass of any extant animal, averaging 7.8 kg in mature males. [5] Orcas (Orcinus orca) have the second largest known brain mass of any extant animal. (5.4-6.8 kg).

  7. Cetacean surfacing behaviour - Wikipedia

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    Humpback whale breach sequence. A breach or a lunge is a leap out of the water, also known as cresting. The distinction between the two is fairly arbitrary: cetacean researcher Hal Whitehead defines a breach as any leap in which at least 40% of the animal's body clears the water, and a lunge as a leap with less than 40% clearance. [2]

  8. Images reveal how an orca pod hunts the world’s largest fish

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    An orca pod in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Mexico has devised a cunning strategy to hunt and kill whale sharks — the world’s largest fish that can grow up to 18 meters (60 feet) in ...

  9. Sperm whale - Wikipedia

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    An incident was filmed from a long-line trawler: a killer whale pod was systematically taking fish caught on the trawler's long lines (as the lines were being pulled into the ship) when a male sperm whale appeared to repeatedly charge the killer whale pod in an attempt to drive them away; it was speculated by the film crew that the sperm whale ...