"Captain, we found a whale." As soon as Xiang Yang got on the boat, he immediately heard the crew chattering.
Xiang Yang smiled and asked, "Where is it?" He knew where the whale the crew members were talking about, but seeing how enthusiastic the crew members were, he couldn't help but follow what they said.
"Here, here..." Xia Pengjie looked around, suddenly pointed in a certain direction, and exclaimed loudly: "Over there, it's a sperm whale."
Xiang Yang rolled his eyes. He knew without even looking that Xia Pengjie was talking nonsense.
Xiang Yang had just come back from that whale, how could he not know that it was a fin whale
Not to mention that the whale that was calling was not a sperm whale at all, but a fin whale, and the direction Xia Pengjie's hand was pointing was also wrong.
“Oh my god!”
“What a big whale!”
“It’s really a sperm whale!”
Then, there were exclamations and gasps from the crew members around Xiang Yang.
Xiang Yang was stunned and quickly turned around to look in that direction.
Sure enough, the next moment Xiang Yang saw a strange big fish with a body length of nearly 20 meters. It had a very strange appearance, a cone-shaped body, and looked top-heavy, and it had no back.
From a distance, the big fish looked like a giant tadpole, with its huge head accounting for about one-third of its body length.
"this... ... "
Xiang Yang was shocked. It turned out to be a sperm whale.
The sperm whale, also known as the giant whale, has a head that looks like a huge box and is very easy to identify.
Sperm whales are widely distributed in various oceans around the world, and they mainly live in tropical and temperate waters. Fishermen in my country often encounter this big guy in the sea. The maximum body length of males is 23 meters, and the maximum body length of females is 17 meters. They are the well-deserved overlord-class creatures in the ocean pyramid.
"Brother Yang, this whale is even bigger than a humpback whale." Fang Youqun shouted, "Let's drive the boat over quickly."
Xiang Yang glanced at Fang Youqun, shook his head and rejected Fang Youqun's proposal.
"Don't be silly, this is a sperm whale, not a docile humpback whale." Xiang Yang said, "Sperm whales are very aggressive and aggressive. All animals, including humans, will never escape once they bite them."
"So fierce?" Fang Youqun asked in fear.
"Yes." Xiang Yang nodded and said, "The whale cry we heard earlier should have been made by a lone fin whale. The lone fin whale should have intended to use the cry to call its companions, but it attracted the ferocious sperm whale instead."
"Fin whale?" Fang Youqun asked suspiciously, "Brother Yang, are you saying there's a lone fin whale nearby?"
"That's right." Xiang Yang nodded naturally, "I have studied the calls of various whales. The previous whale call was obviously made by a fin whale."
The crew members did not doubt Xiang Yang's words.
Xia Pengjie asked, "Captain, are you saying that this sperm whale is here to prey on that fin whale?"
Xiang Yang shook his head. "I don't know about that. There is no record of sperm whales preying on other whales. However, sperm whales are indeed very ferocious. They dive deep into the extremely cold and dark seabed to hunt squid, sharks or other large fish in the deep water, so they may prey on fin whales."
Sperm whales, like humpback whales, are also very keen on preying on giant squids, large octopuses and other foods.
Because the sperm whale is a master diver, it needs a substance to survive in the deep sea - astaxanthin.
Sperm whales and giant squids often fight to the death for a little astaxanthin, each wanting to take the astaxanthin in the other's body for themselves.
However, the giant squid still has a slight chance of winning when fighting with humpback whales, but when fighting with sperm whales, it basically loses the squid's head.
Because sperm whales are not only ferocious, but also social creatures, they usually form a small group of 5 to 10 individuals, and sometimes form large groups of hundreds of individuals like fin whales. In the past, when sperm whales were more skilled, fishermen often saw groups of sperm whales playfully playing and frolicking with each other at sea.
No matter how big the giant squid is, it will be killed on the spot if it encounters a school of sperm whales, and there is no place to escape.
It turns out that where the giant squid can dive, the sperm whale can also dive.
Rather than saying that the sperm whale is a diving mammal, it would be more accurate to say that the sperm whale is a living nuclear submarine.
A depth of more than 1,000 meters is child's play for sperm whales.
In 1991, near the Dominican Islands in the Caribbean, scientists discovered an incredible record of a sperm whale diving to a depth of 2,000 meters.
And the sperm whale's deep diving record is far more than that. The biological community has evidence that is sufficient to indirectly prove that sperm whales can dive deeper.
On August 25, 1969, a male sperm whale was hunted south of South Africa.
The people who captured the sperm whale cut it open and found two sharks in its stomach.
What is most shocking is that the shark feeds on carrion and only lives on the seabed, and the water depth in that sea area is more than 3,100 meters.
That discovery was enough to prove that sperm whales can reach a depth of more than 3,000 meters.
In addition, sperm whales hold the record for the longest diving time among mammals. The recorded diving record for sperm whales is one hour and fifty-two minutes, which is simply terrifying.
The sperm whale was approaching Xiang Yang's fishing boat.
Out of sight of the rest of the crew.
But Xiang Yang used the mysterious jade shell to clearly see that not far below the largest sperm whale, there were six sperm whales of similar size. There were a total of seven sperm whales in this group. If these seven sperm whales were really heading for the fin whale, then the fin whale would definitely be in great danger.
Sperm whales have 28 pairs of conical, narrow teeth. Each tooth is extremely sharp and can be up to 20 centimeters long, just like a sharp sword.
With so many teeth biting on the body at the same time, let alone a lone fin whale, even the largest giant squid and blue whale would probably die on the spot.
"Brother Yang." Fang Youqun stared at the approaching sperm whale and asked nervously, "Will it attack our fishing boat?"
"How is that possible?" Xiang Yang immediately shook his head and said, "We are an ocean-going fishing boat. How could a whale attack us?"
Xiang Yang had absolute confidence that a 65-meter-long ocean-going fishing boat was definitely not something that a sperm whale could attack. If a narwhal or a giant squid came, it would be the same.
Chen Qingsheng also nodded, "If they really dare to attack, we can just drive the boat, maybe we can even crash this guy to death."