This week, my daughter and I have been researching marine animals. She’s mostly into the mammals, from the whales and seals and such; but the really weird-looking creatures, which she says could be monsters, also interest her. In the book Weird, Wild, and Wonderful Marine Creatures, she can get her fill of these animals in a slim but informative book. Read more about Weird, Wild, and Wonderful Marine Creatures
Sperm whales have bigger brains than any other animal on Earth. A male sperm whale can grow to be as large as 67 feet long and about one third of this size is the head. Scientists have also unearthed many other signs of intelligence in these enormous creatures.
The clicking Morse code like sounds these creatures make are very complicated leading many scientists to believe it may represent a form or language. There is good evidence that there is actually different dialects of these clicks and that different clans of sperm whales may communicate a specific dialect among each other.
Read more about Sperm Whales Work Cooperatively and May Have Language It's always been kind of a mystery. Why do Antarctic Killer Whales migrate to tropical waters every year? They don't seem to follow a certain feeding route. The migration to tropical waters has nothing to do with breeding or giving birth. So why do they do it?
Well, it turns out they migrate to tropical waters so they can shed the upper layer of skin, the upper epidermis, without losing so much heat. It would be impossible for these whales to shed their outer skin in the frigid waters (the temperature is lower than freezing) of the Antarctic Ocean because they'd lose so much heat they might die. So, the take a quick trip to the tropics, shed their skin there, and the quickly return.
You can think of as an exfoliating treatment at the spa! The Killer Whales migrate more than 5000 miles to do this and they only stay about 45 days before returning home. These migrations take place between February and April.
Shedding the outer layer of skin is a way of cleaning the body of all the algae and invertebrates that have taken up residence there. This also repairs the skin. Scientists figured this out by fitting 12 killer whales with satellite transmitters. 6 of the transmitters got lost but the other 6 remained attached and they were able to follow them closely and take videography. The scientists could clearly see that their skin was encrusted when they started out and clean as a whistle when they returned.
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If you’ve ever wanted to go whale watching, now is the time to do it—particularly in the Monterey Bay area, where the krill can be found in copious numbers right now. Read more about Summer is the Season for Whale Watching