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	Pygmy Sperm Whale
		It is a yellow waxy substance and was the reason that the sperm whale was nearly hunted to extinction.
		The Pygmy sperm whale is dark grey to blue-grey, with a tiny falcate dorsal fin.
		At sea the Pygmy sperm whale is often seen in small groups of up to 6, floating motionless at the surface with only a part of the head and the back and dorsal fin visible.
	library.thinkquest.org /C0124382/new_page_14.htm (261 words)

	Sperm Whale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Perhaps unsurprisingly, the brain of the Sperm Whale is the largest and heaviest of all animals ever (weighing on average 7 kg in a grown male).
		Sperm Whales are amongst the most sexually dimorphic (that is, males and females differ greatly) of all cetaceans.
		Sperm Whales are not the easiest of whales to watch due to their long dive times and ability to travel long distances underwater.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sperm_Whale (2834 words)

	Pygmy Sperm Whale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Pygmy Sperm Whale (Kogia breviceps) is one of three species of whale in the sperm whale family.
		In Japan the whale was historically known as the "floating whale" because of this.
		Pymgy Sperm Whales are found in the temperature waters of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pygmy_Sperm_Whale (609 words)

	MSN Encarta - Sperm Whale
		Sperm whales probably split off from the ancestors of all present-day cetaceans about 20 million years ago, and they may be as closely related to the baleen whales as they are to other toothed whales and dolphins.
		The bodies of sperm whales are laterally compressed, with a single blowhole on the left front of the head and a thick dorsal hump originating at the hindmost third of the body.
		Sperm whales were hunted intensively by American whalers during the 1800s for the light oil of their heads, and by factory ships of several countries in the 1900s for their meat.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761579753/Sperm_Whale.html (680 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		The Pygmy Sperm Whale (Kogia breviceps) is one of three species of toothed whale in the sperm whale family.
		In Japan the whale was historically known as the "floating whale" because of this.
		Pygmy Sperm Whales are found in the temperate waters of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Pygmy_Sperm_Whale (607 words)

	AllRefer.com - sperm whale (Vertebrate Zoology) - Encyclopedia
		Sperm whaling was the foundation of the economic expansion of New England in the 18th cent.
		Sperm whales are among the most aggressive of whales; they battle 30-ft (9-m) giant squid to the death and have been known, when attacked, to sink a rowboat full of whalers.
		The pygmy sperm whale, Kogia breviceps, of the same family, is similar to the cachalot in range and feeding habits.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/spermwha.html (553 words)

	Pygmy Sperm Whale -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Pygmy Sperm Whale (Kogia breviceps) is one of three ((biology) taxonomic group whose members can interbreed) species of (Any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole on the head) whale in the (Click link for more info and facts about sperm whale family) sperm whale family.
		The Pygmy Sperm is amongst the smallest of all whales and is not much larger than many (Any of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout; larger than porpoises) dolphins.
		The Pygmy Sperm has between 20 and 32 teeth all of which are set into the lower jaw only.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/py/pygmy_sperm_whale.htm (694 words)

	Dwarf Sperm Whale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Dwarf Sperm Whale (Kogia sima) is one of three species of whale in the Sperm Whale family.
		Nowadays the Dwarf Sperm Whale is generally classified as one of two species, along with the Pygmy Sperm Whale, in the Kogiidae family and Kogia genus, however it was not until 1966 that the two species were regard as separate and even more recently Kogiidae was regarded as a subfamily of Physeteridae.
		The Dwarf Sperm Whale is the smallest of all whales.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/dwarf_sperm_whale (622 words)

	Sun.Star Davao - Pygmy sperm whale rescued near Davao naval station
		The whale, a 107-inch (2.675 meters) female pygmy sperm whale (Kogia breviceps), was found beached at the cove beside the Southeastern Mindanao Naval Station in Camp Panacan by Staff Sgt. Gabita, the duty marine, at around 5:30 a.m.
		Guided by the whale experts of WWF through mobile phone, the whale was first led to the naval station pier where it was enclosed in a net for proper identification and measurements, as well as, to wait for guidance by the WWF representative's arrival.
		And thus the pygmy sperm whale was baptized.
	www.sunstar.com.ph /static/dav/2004/09/05/feat/pygmy.sperm.whale.rescued.near.davao.naval.station.html (734 words)

	Pygmy Sperm Whale
		The US Coast Guard flew the whale to the Aquarium, where veterinarians discovered that the animal’s rapidly deteriorating health was caused by several large pieces of plastic lodged in her stomach.
		Pygmy sperm whales are one of the most commonly stranded species reported along the southeastern coast of the United States.
		Despite the high number of strandings, this whale, which came to be known as “Inky,” became the first successfully treated and released pygmy sperm whale.
	www.aqua.org /oceanhealth_pygmyspermwhale.html (441 words)

	Inside Britannica
		The sperm whale is dark blue-gray or brownish, with white patches on the belly.
		Sperm whales are deep divers, commonly reaching a depth of about 350 metres, and have been found tangled in cables more than 1,000 metres below the surface.
		Sperm whales attain sexual maturity at 7 to 13 years of age and physical maturity at 25 to 45 years and have been recorded to live as long as 62 years.
	newsletters.britannica.com /articles/jan04/sperm_whale.html (749 words)

	Secret Spot Baja - Sperm Whale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Sperm whale is the largest of all the toothed cetaceans and has the largest brain of any animal upon earth.
		Sperm whales are very deep divers and can probably dive as deep as 10,000 feet, which is astonishing considering the fact that they are air breathing mammals; the pressure alone at this depth is unimaginable.
		The Sperm whale, along with the dwarf and pygmy sperm whales, are the only cetaceans to have their blowholes not in the center on top of their heads, but displaced to the left side, so that the spout is low and bushy and goes off to the left side of its body.
	www.secretspotbaja.com /sprmwhl.html (465 words)

	ADW: Physeteridae: Information
		These whales include the very large giant sperm whale, which reaches lengths of over 18 m and weights in excess of 53,000 kg, and the (relatively!) dimunitive pygmy sperm whale, which attains a mere 4 m in length and 320 kg in weight.
		Sperm oil, extracted from the spermaceti organ and from the blubber, remains liquid even at low temperatures and was used as a fine industrial lubricant.
		Curiously, while sperm whales unquestionably have teeth, recent molecular data and a reanalysis of their anatomy has suggested that they may be highly derived mysticetes.
	animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu /chordata/mammalia/cetacea/physeteridae.html (691 words)

	ACS - American Cetacean Society
		Pygmy sperm whales and their close relatives the dwarf sperm whales have similarities to the great sperm whales after which they are named, but they are classified into a different family.
		Like the sperm whales, the pygmy sperm whale has teeth in the lower jaw only (the dwarf sperm whale has up to three pairs of teeth in the upper jaw as well).
		Stranded pygmy sperm whales have often been confused with sharks because the head and lower jaw are somewhat shark-like in appearance.
	www.acsonline.org /factpack/PygmySpermWhale.htm (604 words)

	Factsheets: Pygmy Sperm Whale
		The Pygmy Sperm Whale, Kogia breviceps is a small robust whale, measuring a little over 3m.
		At sea it is often difficult to separate the Pygmy Sperm Whale from the Dwarf Sperm Whale.
		Pygmy Sperm Whales are found throughout the temperate and tropical zones both in the open ocean and the continental shelf edge and slope.
	www.austmus.gov.au /factsheets/pygmy_sperm.htm (393 words)

	Georgia Wildlife Web Site; mammals: Kogia breviceps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Pygmy Sperm Whales travel in a small pod of 3 to 6 individuals.
		The Pygmy Sperm Whale inhabits warm waters from as far north as Nova Scotia in the summer to Cuba and the Gulf of Mexico in the fall and winter.
		The Dwarf Sperm Whale is smaller, has a larger dorsal fin in the center of the back, and lacks a pale bracket-shaped mark behind the eye.
	museum.nhm.uga.edu /gawildlife/mammals/cetacea/odontoceti/kbreviceps.html (345 words)

	pygmyspermwhale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Pygmy Sperm Whales do not seem to use their vocal abilities much in their daily life.
		Pygmy Sperm Whales are found in temperate, subtropical, and tropical waters.
		They made this statement after examining a few beached Pygmy Whales and finding fish and mollusks that are usually found at this depth in the whale's stomachs.
	projects.edtech.sandi.net /valencia/whales/pygmyspermwhale.htm (398 words)

	TMMSN Species Corner: Pygmy and Dwarf Sperm Whales (Kogia spp.) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Pygmy and dwarf sperm whales are probably not rare, but are not common sightings, because of their offshore distribution and small group sizes.
		Distribution: The pygmy sperm whale appears to have a cosmopolitan distribution, and should be expected in all temperate, subtropical, and tropical waters.
		Pygmy sperm whales do produce echo-location-like signals, and an infant under 24 hours old was known to emit squeaks, but their meaning is ambiguous.
	www.tmmsn.org /mmgulf/kogia.html (525 words)

	Pygmy sperm whale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		From above, the head of the pygmy sperm whale is conical shaped though from the side it resembles the head of sperm whales.
		Pygmy sperm whales are rarely seen at sea but they do strand on the Australian coast.
		Because of the position and shape of the mouth and the gill-like marks on the side of the head, stranded specimens are often misidentified as sharks.
	www.bayweb.com.au /whales/_species/pygmyspermwhale.html (174 words)

	CMS: Kogia breviceps, Pygmy sperm whale
		Pygmy sperm whales reach a maximum size of about 3.8 m total length and a body mass of 450 kg.
		The Pygmy sperm whale is evidently an oceanic species that lives mostly beyond the edge of the continental shelf in tropical and temperate waters around the world.
		It is often confused with the Dwarf Sperm Whale, which was not recognised as a separate species until 1966.
	www.cms.int /reports/small_cetaceans/data/K_breviceps/K_breviceps.htm (1035 words)

	Sitnews - Stories In the News - Ketchikan, Alaska - News: Pygmy Sperm Whale Found Near Yakutat
		A small toothed whale recently found dead on a beach near Yakutat is the northernmost documented observation of a pygmy sperm whale (Kogia breviceps) on the Pacific Coast of North America.
		Pygmy sperm whales are rarely seen and their numbers and habits are not well known.
		This is the second time this summer that NOAA Fisheries whale experts have identified small whales that are relatively unknown and at the extremes of their ranges in Alaskan waters.
	www.sitnews.us /0703news/071703/071703_pygmy_sperm_whale.html (303 words)

	Pygmy Sperm Whale - kogia breviceps The Firecracker Whale by Max Newman April 1996. A current study of available ...
		Kogia breviceps (or pygmy sperm whale) is one of the three known odontocete whales or toothed whales.
		Our knowledge of pygmy sperm whales behavior in the wild is limited due to the fact that it is not a coastal animal and prefers to inhabit the deeper sections of the oceans.
		The pygmy sperm whale and its relative dwarf sperm whale are the second most commonly stranded cetacean in the south eastern U.S., next to the bottlenosed dolphin.
	www.mosquitonet.com /~gcn/kogia5.htm (2021 words)

	Archived conservation news articles on Pygmy Sperm Whale
		The pygmy sperm whale or a dwarf sperm whale was thought to have washed ashore from the Atlantic Ocean during the night.
		The body of the whale, an adult male pygmy sperm whale, was positioned on a tarp on the sandy soil, tinged red from the mammal's blood.
		KIHEI â“ A pygmy sperm whale and her young calf beached themselves at Kealia on Saturday afternoon and were moved to a protected pond when it was apparent...
	conservation.mongabay.com /news/Pygmy_Sperm_Whale.htm (1418 words)

	cetacea, dolphins, whales and porpoises (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The extant sub-orders are the Mysticeti (baleen whales) and the Odontoceti (toothed whales).
		This group of whales (along with the sperm whale) was most affected by the whaling boom.
		Gray whales travel singly or in small groups of up to a dozen or so individuals.Populations of this species were nearly driven to extinction in the early part of this century.
	www.peninsulavaldes.org /patagonia/animals/mammals/cetaceose.htm (3743 words)

	Pacific Whale Foundation - Tours
		Pygmy sperm whales are typically found in Hawaii's deep offshore waters.
		Pacific Whale Foundation's Wild Dolphin Project, a research study now in its 7th year was originally launched with the goal of learning more about the wild spinner dolphins off the coasts of Maui and Lana'i.
		Included among odontocetes are pygmy sperm whales, false killer whales, bottlenose dolphins, melon-headed whales, rough-toothed dolphins and spotted dolphins.
	www.pacificwhale.org /news/news_detail.php?id=173 (829 words)

	Even whale experts ask, 'What's going on?' - The Honolulu Advertiser - Hawaii's Newspaper
		According to the American Cetacean Society Web site, the pygmy sperm whales and their close relatives the dwarf sperm whales have similarities to the great sperm whales after which they are named, but they are classified into a different family.
		Although the pygmy sperm whale is not an endangered species —; they are found in tropical and subtropical waters across the globe — the weekend's events were rare.
		The pygmy sperm whale is a deep-water mammal that generally avoids shallow water, and hardly anything is known about the species.
	the.honoluluadvertiser.com /article/2005/Jan/18/ln/ln02p.html (676 words)

	Pygmy Sperm Whale, Kogia breviceps @ MarineBio.org
		The Pygmy sperm whale, Kogia breviceps, is a small cetacean with a stocky body that narrows on the posterior end of the body behind the dorsal fin.
		Pygmy sperm whales have a mark on either side of the head known as a "false gill" because of its resemblance to the gill slits of fish (which it shares with the closely-related Dwarf Sperm Whale).
		Pygmy sperm whales are blue-gray to fl on the dorsal side, with lighter coloring on the ventral side.
	www.marinebio.com /species.asp?id=328 (917 words)

	Species Profiles — OBIS-SEAMAP
		The dwarf sperm whale is similar in appearance to the pygmy sperm whale, but has a larger dorsal fin, generally set nearer the middle of the back.
		Like its congener, the dwarf sperm whale has a shark-like profile (but with a more pointed snout than the pygmy sperm whale), gray and white countershading, and a light pigment block resembling a shark's gill slit on the side of its head.
		Dwarf sperm whales are sometimes killed in directed fisheries in the Caribbean and Indo-Pacific regions, and a few have been known to die incidentally in fisheries throughout the range.
	seamap.env.duke.edu /species/tsn/180492 (917 words)

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