Sperm Whales are so interesting and cool. In my opinion, they are the closest Sea Animals to resemble a Prehistoric Whale, like a Livyatan.

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Opening-Ad8035@reddit

These and the beaked whales are the closes-looking to ancient marine mammals, although they're not very old.

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RyeBreadTrips@reddit

Ultimate predator. Its got sonar stun, battering ram, and then it'll drag you deep.

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Double_Ad_5460@reddit

Sperm whales are THE COOLEST thing on the planet, hands down. I am always excited to learn about them.

Re: emotions. Notice how tactile they are with each other and their adopted clan member. Here

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Oh my God, I’m a whale fanatic with the fact that the size and the development of their brains points to the fact that they feel more emotions than us. It blows my mind that there are more emotions and that we will never ever be able to understand or articulate but they feel they have and feel more emotions of us. Nuts. One of my favourite things regarding the sperm whales are their mouths – – did you know that only their bottom jaw is toothed and their teeth go into gum sockets on the roof of their mouths. They will use their strong tongues to catch squid and perhaps use their teeth to grip— but essentially the way their mouths are shaped —It acts like a vacuum and sucks a squid in whole

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Equality_Executor@reddit

I only reposted this old comment of mine yesterday in another post in this subreddit, so I apologise if anyone has already/recently seen it:

Oh man, sperm whales are so fascinating. I'm not a scientist but the following are a few examples of some things I've found out through my interest in non-human intelligence.

Sperm whales have the largest brain of any animal on earth, 6 times larger than ours. Size isn't everything of course but their brains also contain spindle cells which help with processing emotions and communication. These spindle cells were once thought to be exclusive to humans, but sperm whales actually possess larger concentrations of them than humans do.

Video: Clicking you inside out (information on how they communicate) - suggests that the information density of their communication could be very high, possibly higher than human communication.

Video: SETI Scientist anecdote about a curious sperm whale - that's right, the SETI institute (aka Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence), have decided to study sperm whale communications because it is a complex form of communication different to ours that is already right here on earth. They want to use machine learning to eventually be able to decode and translate the clicks. The whole video is fascinating to me but I found the story at the linked time to be particularly cool.

Study: Adaptation of sperm whales to open-boat whalers: rapid social learning on a large scale? - they learned that their normal defensive posture (forming a circle around the calves with tails out) was ineffective against whaling ships and shifted their response to swimming upwind of them on a large scale.

If any of you have any more information for me about sperm whales or any cool little stories like the above please show me!

Edit: The sperm whale communication study that SETI started is now called CETI (CEtation Translation Initiative) and is headed by Dr David Gruber who recently did an AMA in this sub :)

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lost_notdead@reddit

Thanks for sharing this again; it's so fascinating!

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Dolphin-Aesthetic@reddit

I'm fairy certain that Livyatan is known to be a genus of sperm whale.