it's friday afternoon, i'm incredibly bored, and have an hour left before leaving to get some drinks, so i thought i'd kill some time and let everyone know why sperm whales are awesome.
1. largest toothed carnivore on the planet
2. largest brain of any animal ever, alive or extinct
3. can dive 2 miles deep for over 2 hours
4. can rest one side of brain at a time while diving, and need the least sleep out of any mammal
5. live in all oceans and mediterranean sea
6. loudest animal alive, can knock out prey with sonic boom
7. they fight and eat colossal squid
8. sperm is a funny word
9. they live to 80 yrs old
10. exclusively make ambergris(their puke), used in perfumes and to ward off the plague
11. albino moby dicks do exists
let me paint you a picture of this, if you will. so you're a sperm whale and you think, "i'll just hang out at the bottom of the ocean for a while" so you dive to the bottom while sleeping, wake up when you get there, swim around and screech a bunch, knocking out smaller sea creatures. you come across this gigantic bastard squid, and have an epic battle that no human has ever witnessed before and kick its ass. then you travel back up to the surface, puke up some stuff, and humans use it as perfume.
sounds pretty damn cool huh? if there's one thing i want to see more than a tiger v. bear fight, it's a sperm whale v. colossal squid battle. here's a video of some lady freaking out cause there's a bunch of sperm whales hanging around her boat.
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i guess the video didn't turn out right. here's a link if you feel like watching it. http://blogs.discovery.com/news_animal/2008/01/view-harrowing.html
I had heard about ambergris before and yeah, aparently finding a piece of weathered whale vomit is like winning the lottery.
I have to say though, giant squids are pretty fucking rad, maybe even cooler than the whales. I have seen people fishing for them and the ones that they pull out are humboldt squid and they get pretty pissed off so I can imagine the bigger ones fighting with a whale. Giant squid can also change colors, squirt ink and have huge tentacles.
squids cooler than the whales?? haha i laugh at that.
sperm whales eat giant squid. 77% of their diet comes from these squid. end of contest.
Giant Squids and Collossal Squids are sometimes Sperm whale brunch but I believe that if a sperm whale didn't have its OP sonic boom the squids would just tear the derpy whale apart
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