Podger biography

In the continuation of the post, interesting facts about the animal. Podimally - the largest predators in the history of the Earth. Even females reach a length of 11 meters with a mass of about 15 tons. Males are on average three times heavier and one and a half times longer. And even this is not a record! In the year, Soviet whalers reported a male 20 meters long and weighing about 80 tons!

Yes, some other whales will be more, but all the giants of the planet are filtrators, not real carnivorous ones. And with such sizes, sperm whale is enough to jump out of the water! Of course, animals have such dimensions and there are no natural enemies close. Even a newborn baby weighs more than tons. It is automatically too tough for the vast majority of meat -eaters of the planet.

Only kinatka can give our heroes resistance. However, usually only symbolic: an adult sperm whale kills a wander with one blow of a muscular tail. If the killer whales want to have a bite of the children of sperm whale, then they will stand in the "Margarita formation". On which side the predators are not suitable, they will meet the tails ready to attack. The sperm whales despised all the boundaries and conventions.

For one year, a toothy whale can spend at the equator, and the other in the waters of the Arctic Ocean. However, young animals prefer to live in warmer waters, and age -related ones are in colder, at the poles. Regardless of the place of residence, the sperm whales remove the very cream from the ecosystems. They are not interested in animals less than a meter in length.

Support the prey worthy of their teeth. To imagine how powerful our hero bites, take a pencil from the shelf. Well done: 1 tooth in the size of it! But in order to catch the largest fish, it is not enough to be just a powerful toothy awkward. The power of the sperm whale rests on two elephants. The first of them: adaptations to the aquatic environment. A predatory whale is able to dive to the depths of meters and hold your breath for 2 hours!

All their systems to capture and absorb oxygen work better than ours. The fat layer reliably protects from water of any temperature. And the ribs are attached to the spine with flexible cartilage. Thanks to the latter, their chest is compressed, but does not break under the pressure of water. The second elephant is the developed social sphere of animals. Females and young males gather in groups led by a wise matriarch.

Males hold on one by one, but they sometimes organize flocks.

The stomachs even hunt together, surrounding the victim than put it in a hopeless position. Sperm wares even sleeping together! Usually they are sleeping from 18 to 24 hours. Once an hour and a half, the animal pops up and takes several sips of air. Apparently, at the same time it does not even wake up! During the hunt, animals constantly keep contact with each other with clicks, the volume of which is accelerated to decibels - louder than jet of the jet engine.

This effect is created thanks to a super -powerful voice apparatus, a spermacial bag and a melon. The latter work as huge lenses. Another whale is able to hear the voice of a friend even from a distance of 5 kilometers! Premising will definitely try to get out of the environment. But where is there! The sound system of sperm whales is not only a way to talk, but also an echoolocator.

Yes, most of the head of the sperm whale is just a soft pillow. Spermaceti Organ - a spermacial organ. Melon - melon. Well, large males are strong enough to neglect the help of comrades. They voluntarily descend into the abyss and challenge the local rulers: giant squid, whose tentacles are stretched by 20 meters! Of course, the cephalopods have no chance - the difference in the mass is colossal.

However, they do not give up without a fight: squid leave the scars on the suction cosocks and strokes of a sharp beak on the skin of the sperm whales. Unfortunately, mankind does not have a single photograph of the epic battle of two marine giants. We observed it only according to indirect signs: scars on the skin and beaks of mollusks in the stomachs of whales. But over the year, the entire population of sperm whales eats an incredible amount of seafood: about 91 million tons.

For reference: all of humanity eats millions of tons of sea gifts for the same period.