Dr Mate explained that, with sperm whales, which dive to great depths, it was far more difficult to capture the behaviour. ”Our next step will be to image the squid at the same time as tracking ...

Ambergris is essentially a clump of squid beaks bound by a fatty secretion. Over time, it balls up in the intestine of some sperm whales. And eventually …. Out it goes. Now, in the strictest ...

The sperm whale is the largest toothed predator on the ... You can even tell when she catches a squid because the clicks speed up to a shrill intensity and then suddenly stop, as she presumably ...

For comparison, they also tested real (but dead) squid and pieces of squid beak that had been recovered from the stomach of a dead sperm whale. The trash almost always sounded like food, especially ...

The eyes of a giant squid are the size of dinner plates and eyes up to 35cm in diameter have been reported. It’s thought they evolved to spot large predators, such as sperm whales. They do not ...