Sperm whale
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The sperm whale or cachalot 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
Mother and baby sperm whale
Unusual among cetaceans, the sperm whale's blowhole is highly skewed to the left side of the head.
A sperm whale skeleton
skeleton of a sperm whale, Museum of Nature and Environment, Lübeck Germany
Cuvier's beaked whale
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Cuvier's beaked whale, goose-beaked whale, or ziphius is the most widely distributed of all beaked whales in the family Ziphiidae. It is among the largest beaked whales but smaller than most baleen wh
Sperm whale
…of the animal's length. Plunging to 2,250 metres (7,380 ft), it is the third deepest diving mammal, exceeded only by the southern elephant seal and Cuvier's beaked whale. The sperm whale uses echolocation and vocalization with source level as loud as 236 decibels (re 1 μPa m) underwater, the loudest of any animal. It…
Ziphius carvirostris
A pod swimming off Dominica.
Cuvier's beaked whale surfaces in the Pelagos Sanctuary for Mediterranean Marine Mammals in the Ligurian Sea.
A whale breaching in Bay of Biscay