cachalot

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• But as perhaps fifty of these whale-bone whales are harpooned for one cachalot, some philosophers of the forecastle have concluded that this positive havoc has already very seriously diminished their battalions. Moby Dick; or the Whale
• They have plenty of natural enemies - cachalots, swordfish, and sawfish - without you troubling them.
• No one could better describe the macrocephalous cachalot, which is sometimes more than seventy-five feet long. Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
• The sperm whale, or cachalot, is one of the cetaceans, a group of marine mammals whose ancestors were probably land animals.
• Seeing as they know that cachalots need quite an amount of food, and seeing as we know how much cachalots exist, we can make an estimate of how much Giant Squids are alive.
• The Abraham Lincoln checked its speed and made for the animal signalled, a simple whale, or common cachalot, which soon disappeared amidst a storm of abuse. Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
• What whalers term schools are assemblages of female cachalots in large numbers - from twenty to a hundred, together with their young, called calves, and piloted by one or more adult males, called bulls.
• One cachalot killed, it ran at the next, tacked on the spot that it might not miss its prey, going forwards and backwards, answering to its helm, plunging when the cetacean dived into the deep waters, coming up with it when it returned to the surface, striking it front or sideways, cutting or tearing in all directions and at any pace, piercing it with its terrible spur. Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
• They can become at least 18 meters long, and cachalots and other whales are often seen with scars from their suckers.
• The mystery was explained; for, as the great beast emerged yet further from the water, I recognized, from its enormous size and great length of head, the cachalot whale. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 3