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Ocean Odyssey (working title Oceans) is a two-part, two-hour (the two parts last an hour long) television programme produced for the BBC by the production company Impossible Pictures. It follows the life of a bull sperm whale from his birth until his death, stranded on a beach (originally it was to be a voyage in a submarine).
Ocean Girl (known as Ocean Odyssey in the UK) is an Australian science fiction television series aimed for family audiences and starring Marzena Godecki as the lead character. The show is set in the near future, and focuses on an unusual girl named Neri who lives alone on an island, and the friendships she develops with the inhabitants of an ...
Ocean Odyssey: 2006 A documentary looking at the ocean abyss and its bizarre creatures. The programme also traces the 80 year story of the largest predator ever to have evolved, the sperm whale. Bernard Hill (narrator) Galápagos: 2006 A natural history of the Pacific islands. Tilda Swinton (narrator) Incredible Animal Journeys: 2006
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 ...
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.
The sperm whale that beached itself off the coast of Venice in southwest Florida on Sunday has died. According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, the whale, measuring about ...
The focus of the program was on sperm whales, a cosmopolitan species found in every major ocean. [6] As long-lived apex predators, sperm whales represent a useful bioindicator of health in the marine ecosystem in a toxicological context, owing to the effects of three key processes: bioaccumulation, biomagnification and the generation effect. [4]
Sperm whales are one of the largest animals on the planet, weighing up to 90,000 pounds and reaching nearly 52 feet in length, according to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ...