Listen to the sperm whale

Units of females and their young regularly travel across ranges spanning several islands in the Antilles, but they appear to remain in the Caribbean as these families have never be identified in the neighbouring waters in the Gulf of Mexico or the Sargasso Sea, where there is also active research on sperm whales. Learn more about the sperm whales families in our Flukebook Find out what we have learned from thousands of hours in their company read our Publications Listen to Shane talk about sperm whale codas: Canadian researcher reveals how sperm whales communicate. Apparently, I am not worth talking to until I have read it. I think of it as the Big Why and the So What. A few years ago in the Gulf of California, we found ourselves surrounded by a pod of female sperm whales sleeping peacefully like massive logs in a calm sea.

The complex arterial retia mirabilia of the sperm whale are more extensive and larger than those of any other cetacean. Of course they can also hear these higher frequencies. Running through the head are two air passages.