Thursday, June 2, 2011


SKELETON OF SPERM WHALE 
in Kavaratti museum. 


It is the largest living toothed animal. The head can take up to one-third of the animal's length.
The name comes from the milky-white waxy substance, spermacti found in the animal's head. The sperm whale is the only living member of genus Physeter.

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