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John Allman (with colleague Atiya Hakeem at Caltech examining elephant brain specimens ... are known to have the cells: humpback whales, sperm whales, fin whales, orcas and bottle-nosed dolphins.
Deep dive into sperm whale biology. Image by Real Science on YouTube. Their heads make up about one-third of their body length. This massive head houses the largest brain of any animal on Earth. Watch ...
Image by Alex Steyn via Unsplash Whales are highly social creatures, with species like orcas and sperm whales exhibiting complex social ... They rest one half of their brain at a time, allowing them ...
Sperm whales, the planet’s largest toothed predator, have incredibly complex social structures and cultural practices. During a recent WWF-backed research expedition around Greece’s northwestern ...
Lauren H. DeLoach of South Carolina admitted to importing more than $18,000 worth of sperm whale parts from Australia, Latvia, Norway and Ukraine, prosecutors said. By Johnny Diaz A South Carolina ...
Hal Whitehead, a marine biologist at Dalhousie University in Halifax, says videos of sperm whale carcasses ... tell just from the images taken by Brendon Gould that the whale was at least ...
The 27 sperm whale sightings reported off Ireland since 1990 Image from IWDG The reason for this is that sperm whales tend to spend their lives in deeper parts of the ocean. “Such places are ...
A Newfoundland man made news with his creative photography of a dead sperm ... whale expert says the viral video has more value than simple entertainment. Hal Whitehead, a biologist and professor at ...