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  1. Expert warns whale carcass off Denmark could explode at any moment

    The dead humpback whale lying off the Danish coast is increasingly at risk of exploding, according to a…
    #Denmark #Danmark #DK #Europe #Europa #EU #Danishisland #denmark #FabianRitter #humpbackwhale #spermwhale #Timmy #whalecarcass
    europesays.com/3013098/

  2. I'm counting the days when we can successfully communicate with sperm whales 🐳. We will finally be able to apologise for almost making them extinct because of our thirst for money and "progress".

    And we could tell them one of the greatest books ever written by our civilization is about them! 😍

    theguardian.com/environment/20

    Melville would be proud. 🫶🏾

    #melville #hermanmelville #mobydick #whale #spermwhale #nonhumans

  3. I'm counting the days when we can successfully communicate with sperm whales 🐳. We will finally be able to apologise for almost making them extinct because of our thirst for money and "progress".

    And we could tell them one of the greatest books ever written by our civilization is about them! 😍

    theguardian.com/environment/20

    Melville would be proud. 🫶🏾

    #melville #hermanmelville #mobydick #whale #spermwhale #nonhumans

  4. I'm counting the days when we can successfully communicate with sperm whales 🐳. We will finally be able to apologise for almost making them extinct because of our thirst for money and "progress".

    And we could tell them one of the greatest books ever written by our civilization is about them! 😍

    theguardian.com/environment/20

    Melville would be proud. 🫶🏾

    #melville #hermanmelville #mobydick #whale #spermwhale #nonhumans

  5. I'm counting the days when we can successfully communicate with sperm whales 🐳. We will finally be able to apologise for almost making them extinct because of our thirst for money and "progress".

    And we could tell them one of the greatest books ever written by our civilization is about them! 😍

    theguardian.com/environment/20

    Melville would be proud. 🫶🏾

    #melville #hermanmelville #mobydick #whale #spermwhale #nonhumans

  6. I'm counting the days when we can successfully communicate with sperm whales 🐳. We will finally be able to apologise for almost making them extinct because of our thirst for money and "progress".

    And we could tell them one of the greatest books ever written by our civilization is about them! 😍

    theguardian.com/environment/20

    Melville would be proud. 🫶🏾

    #melville #hermanmelville #mobydick #whale #spermwhale #nonhumans

  7. Okay this is wild — sperm whales apparently have their own phonetic "alphabet" with vowel-like sounds, tones, and layered structures that work a lot like human language.
    These guys have been having deep, multi-generational conversations for millions of years. Just passing down knowledge like we do.
    Honestly just a really cool reminder that we're not the only intelligent, cultural species on this planet. Nature still finds ways to blow my mind.

    #whale #language #spermwhale

    theguardian.com/environment/20

  8. Okay this is wild — sperm whales apparently have their own phonetic "alphabet" with vowel-like sounds, tones, and layered structures that work a lot like human language.
    These guys have been having deep, multi-generational conversations for millions of years. Just passing down knowledge like we do.
    Honestly just a really cool reminder that we're not the only intelligent, cultural species on this planet. Nature still finds ways to blow my mind.

    #whale #language #spermwhale

    theguardian.com/environment/20

  9. WOAAAHHHH!!! 😍🐋🥰

    "Not only do sperm whales have a form of 'alphabet' and form vowels within their vocalizations but the structure of these vowels behaves in the same way as human speech, the new study has found".

    theguardian.com/environment/20

    #spermwhale #whales #language #animalbehaviour

  10. WOAAAHHHH!!! 😍🐋🥰

    "Not only do sperm whales have a form of 'alphabet' and form vowels within their vocalizations but the structure of these vowels behaves in the same way as human speech, the new study has found".

    theguardian.com/environment/20

    #spermwhale #whales #language #animalbehaviour

  11. Scientists make troubling discovery while using drones to study whales: ‘Game-changer’

    Researchers have unlocked a new method of studying whale health thanks to drone technology. However, their findings have…
    #NewsBeep #News #Wildlife #Arcticregions #AU #Australia #cetaceanmorbillivirus #finwhales #humpback #King'sCollegeLondon #northernNorway #Researchers #respiratorydroplets #Science #spermwhale
    newsbeep.com/au/470940/

  12. #Nantucket is working with federal officials "to determine the best course of action regarding the whale that washed ashore.
    The #spermwhale is a male that measures 50 feet long and weighs about 104,000 pounds, or 52 tons, according to Marine Mammal Alliance Nantucket

    cbsnews.com/boston/news/nantuc

  13. Ancient fossil sperm #whale may have been active predator phys.org/news/2025-05-ancient-

    Awakening #Patagonia's sleeping #SpermWhale: a new description of the Early #Miocene Idiorophus patagonicus. By Florencia Paolucci et al. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10

    "Its snout features point to a lifestyle quite different from modern sperm #whales. It was likely an active predator of large #fish and possibly #seabirds, while extant #SpermWhales feed mostly on #cephalopods or small fish through suction feeding"

  14. Ancient fossil sperm #whale may have been active predator phys.org/news/2025-05-ancient-

    Awakening #Patagonia's sleeping #SpermWhale: a new description of the Early #Miocene Idiorophus patagonicus. By Florencia Paolucci et al. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10

    "Its snout features point to a lifestyle quite different from modern sperm #whales. It was likely an active predator of large #fish and possibly #seabirds, while extant #SpermWhales feed mostly on #cephalopods or small fish through suction feeding"

  15. My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

    The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dr Dean Lomax & published by Columbia University Press) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. "Victims of the Bloom" shows a mass stranding of baleen whales, sperm whales, seals, and fishes, caused by a toxic algal bloom.

    #Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Palaeontology #Paleontology #BaleenWhales #SpermWhale #WildlifeArt

  16. My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

    The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dr Dean Lomax & published by Columbia University Press) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. "Victims of the Bloom" shows a mass stranding of baleen whales, sperm whales, seals, and fishes, caused by a toxic algal bloom.

    #Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Palaeontology #Paleontology #BaleenWhales #SpermWhale #WildlifeArt

  17. 🐳⚡
    Sperm Whale yesterday, #Waterford

    #IWDG:
    iwdg.ie/sperm-whale-in-waterfo

    🐳 Largest Toothed Predator, 18 meters long, <57 Tons

    🐳 Deep Diver: I3,000 meters

    🐳 Huge Head and Brain

    🐳 Powerful echolocation clicks, loudest animal

    #speirgorm #whale #spermWhale #ireland #irish #dolphin #mastodaoine

    📷©Watchorn

  18. Holy CRAP!! 😲 Sperm whale in Prince William Sound near Valdez, Alaska. Photographer Todd Graven saw this guy yesterday and estimated his size at around 60 feet long. They don't usually go into PWS. The photo was taken by a drone. #Alaska #AlaskaSeaLife #SpermWhale #Ginormous

  19. Holy CRAP!! 😲 Sperm whale in Prince William Sound near Valdez, Alaska. Photographer Todd Graven saw this guy yesterday and estimated his size at around 60 feet long. They don't usually go into PWS. The photo was taken by a drone. #Alaska #AlaskaSeaLife #SpermWhale #Ginormous

  20. A sperm whale dives into the ocean depths to hunt squid near the southern tip of Mauritius, one of only three places where these huge creatures are residents all year round.

    Taken with an underwater camera case.

    #photography #spermwhale #mauritius #olympus

  21. A sperm whale dives into the ocean depths to hunt squid near the southern tip of Mauritius, one of only three places where these huge creatures are residents all year round.

    Taken with an underwater camera case.

    #photography #spermwhale #mauritius #olympus

  22. #SpermWhale departure linked to decline in jumbo #squid population in #GulfofCalifornia
    Study offers insight into relationship between apex marine predators and their environment, highlighting sperm #whales as key indicators of oceanic health. Conducted over 9-years, utilized extensive survey data and photo-identification techniques to track sperm #whale populations. Finding striking correlation between decline of #jumbosquid and disappearance of sperm whales from region
    phys.org/news/2024-10-sperm-wh

  23. #SpermWhale departure linked to decline in jumbo #squid population in #GulfofCalifornia
    Study offers insight into relationship between apex marine predators and their environment, highlighting sperm #whales as key indicators of oceanic health. Conducted over 9-years, utilized extensive survey data and photo-identification techniques to track sperm #whale populations. Finding striking correlation between decline of #jumbosquid and disappearance of sperm whales from region
    phys.org/news/2024-10-sperm-wh

  24. Oops More Whales. This guy is a #spermwhale ! I really like how the weathering on this grey denim works.

  25. Oops More Whales. This guy is a #spermwhale ! I really like how the weathering on this grey denim works.

  26. The Vocabulary of Sperm Whales
    synapsida.blogspot.com/2024/05

    "Particular patterns of rhythm and tempo are more likely to be combined with rubato and/or extra clicks than others, and many potential patterns just aren't used at all. This also resembles the way that individual #phonemes are used in human #languages, with no #language containing every possible consonant... the researchers conclude that there are not just 21 'words' in the vocabulary of this particular #SpermWhale clan... there are 143."