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Originally Posted by Fulcrum525
"The total annual consumption of prey by sperm whales worldwide is estimated to be about 100 million tons — a figure greater than the total consumption of marine animals by humans each year."
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A lot of the diet of sperm whales is deep dwelling huge squid. Sperm whales can dive for that stuff. They find many squid beaks (looks like a really large parrots beak, sort of) in the bellies of deceased sperm whales.
Whoa. Found this wild tale about a particularly large sperm whale ramming and sinking a whaling boat in the early 1820s:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essex_(whaleship)
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Last edited by cmac2012; 06-19-2009 at 02:20 PM.
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