Sperm Whale African Sea Animals

Sperm Whale African Sea Animals Species

The neck vertebrae are fused They have a spinal column, four-chambered heart, and a vestigial pelvic bone. Just beneath the skin blubber is present which is made up of fat and stores energy as well as acts as an insulator. Few hairs are also present.

Sperm Whale Sea Animals Pictures

Like all the mammals whales breathe air, nurse their young ones with milk produced by the mammary glands and are warm blooded animals. Because of excessive hunting whales have entered the category of endangered in the last century. For many centuries they have been hunted for their meat and other valuable raw materials. They generally dwell in all the oceans of the world and their population exceeds to millions with the growth rate ranging between 3-13% annually.

Giant Sperm Whale Photos

The pygmy sperm whale is 35 m in length. The blue whale is the largest mammal known today and it attains a body size of 35 m and weighs about 150 tonnes. In all the Cetaceans the forelimbs are modified into fins, tail is provided with flukes, and the nasal openings are present on top of the head.

Pictures of Giant Sperm Whale

This suborder includes blue whale, humpback whale, minke whale and bowhead whale. The other Cetacean suborder Mysticeti is filter feeder animals which feed by straining small animals through their comb-like characteristic structures known as baleen.

Photos of Sperm Whale

This suborder also encompasses sperm whale, killer whale, pilot whale and beluga whale. Dolphins and porpoises don not come under this category because they are placed in the suborder Odontoceti. Whale is a common name used for the different members belonging to the order Cetacea.