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SPERM WHALE - English
URL: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/whales/species/Spermwhale.shtml

The sperm whale is the largest toothed whale and lives in pods. It grows to be about 50 feet (15 m) long. It lives at the surface but dives very deeply to catch the giant squid that it eats.

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Physeteridae (Sperm Whales) - English
URL: http://www.thebigzoo.com/zoo/Physeteridae.asp

The Physeteridae family consists of the Physeter genus and the Kogia genus. They range in size from the 59-foot sperm whale to the 12-foot pygmy sperm whale. They are found in all oceans of the world.

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Sperm Whale - English
URL: http://mbgnet.mobot.org/salt/whale/sperm.htm

The largest of the toothed whales, the sperm whale has a huge head, as great as one-third of its total body length, and a disproportionately small lower jaw, set well back from the snout.

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Sperm Whales - English
URL: http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/walker/cetacea/cetacea.physeteridae.html

This family of two Recent genera and three species occurs in all the oceans and adjoining seas of the world. The genus Kogia sometimes is placed in a subfamily or family, the Kogiidae, distinct from that containing the genus Physeter

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Кашалотовые (Physeteridae) - Russian
URL: http://www.internevod.com/rus/academy/bio/m_p/sem_kash.shtml

Китообразные мелких и средних размеров с длиной тела 2,1-21 м. Половой диморфизм выражен резко (самцы значительно крупнее самок) или слабо.

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Кашалот (Sperm Whale) - Russian
URL: http://www.zooclub.ru/wild/kito/16.shtml

Питание - ведущее место занимают головоногие моллюски, среди них почти 20 видов кальмаров, в том числе гигантские архитеутисы длиной более 10 м, и несколько видов осьминогов. Из рыб поедают, преимущественно в северных водах, морских окуней, алепизавров, корифен, скатов, мелких акул, тресковых, глубоководных рыб -макрурид и удильщиков, а в водах Антарктики - клыкачей.

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