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The left passage runs alongside the spermaceti organ and goes directly to the blowhole, whilst the right passage runs underneath the spermaceti organ and passes air through a pair of phonic lips and into the distal sac at the very front of the nose. By reducing the abundance of sperm whales in the Southern Ocean, whaling has resulted in an extra 2 million tonnes of carbon remaining in the atmosphere each year. Gestation in these cetaceans is probably about months. Redirected from Physeter macrocephalus. Archived from the original on






Story of Mistaken Identity - The Pygmy Sperm Whale

Description: Retrieved 12 December Compositional topography of melon and spermaceti organ lipids in the pygmy sperm whale Kogia breviceps: As with all cetaceans, the spine of the sperm whale has reduced zygapophysial joints , of which the remnants are modified and are positioned higher on the vertebral dorsal spinous process, hugging it laterally, to prevent extensive lateral bending and facilitate more dorso-ventral bending. Sperm Whales , Voyageur Press, p.
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