![]() ![]() Like most whale species-such as the barnacled southern right whale,with its huge arched grill of baleen or the beluga whale, with its bulbous head-the sperm whale is a strange–looking animal. Measuring up to sixty feet in length, an adult male sperm whale is the largest of the toothed-or odontocete-whale species. As they leave the ocean surface, glistening green–gray flukes disappearing beneath the chop, they simply leave our world behind and dive into another. ![]() If many aspects of its journey are not so clear, this is because the lives of sperm whales are still mostly shrouded in mystery-a collection of theories rather than facts. Ambergris begins its long journey in darkness, beneath several hundred tons of seawater, in the warm and cavernous hindgut of a sperm whale. ![]()
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