RARE PHOTOS: Sperm Whale EATS Giant Squid


	RARE PHOTOS: Sperm Whale EATS Giant Squid

ratilfar

11-5-2009 1:51 PM

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whales, giant squid, nature, science, national geographic

ratilfar says:

Scientist have suspected this, but now photographic proof has emerged. More pictures on the page.

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Carrying the remains of a roughly 30-foot (9-meter) <A href="http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/invertebrates/giant-squid.html">giant squid</A> in her jaws, a female <A href="http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/sperm-whale.html">sperm whale</A>, with a calf at her side, swims near the surface off <A href="http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/places/countries/country_japan.html">Japan</A>'s <A href="http://maps.nationalgeographic.com/maps/map-machine#s=r&c=26.302529542158908,%20141.75489798188207&z=6">Bonin Islands (map)</A>in the northwestern Pacific. Taken on October 15, this and other  "absolutely sensational" new pictures offer rare proof of the sperm whale's taste for giant squid, said giant squid expert Steve O'Shea of the Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand.</DIV><BR /><DIV>The pictures may also reveal that adult sperm whales, which grow up to 59 feet (18 meters) long, use pieces of their prizes to teach youngsters how to catch their own, O'Shea told National Geographic  News.</DIV><BR />The group of five adults and one calf kept diving deep in unison, photographer Tony Wu told the <I>Daily Mail</I>. "It seemed as if the adult whales were trying to teach the baby to dive and also to eat squid," he said.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/04/rare-photos-sperm-whale-e_n_345506.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.huffingtonpost.com/img/8854275E-CFF6-4273-8E57-94059074D11C" alt="" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/0147ADC0-AE89-416D-9923-81D85ACB2E1B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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