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sperm whale

noun

  1. a large, square-snouted whale, Physeter catodon, valued for its oil and spermaceti: now reduced in number and rare in some areas.


sperm whale

noun

  1. a large toothed whale, Physeter catodon, having a square-shaped head and hunted for sperm oil, spermaceti, and ambergris: family Physeteridae Also calledcachalot
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of sperm whale1

First recorded in 1825–35
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of sperm whale1

C19: short for spermaceti whale
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A sperm whale which died on Monday after washing up on the island of Raasay had been entangled in ropes.

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A sperm whale that died after stranding on the Isle of Harris in November 2019 had a 100kg "litter ball" in its stomach.

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There are many other large whales, including blue, fin, sei, humpback, gray and sperm whales.

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The scientists mapped and quantified movement for four globally distributed large whale species — the blue, fin, humpback and sperm whales — based on 435,000 locations and then related the data to global shipping activity.

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The team found that mandatory measures to reduce whale-ship collisions were very rare, overlapping just 0.54% of blue whale hotspots and 0.27% of humpback hotspots, and not overlapping any fin or sperm whale hotspots.

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