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Whales are divided into two subspecies, baleen whales and toothed whales. What is the difference between baleen whales and toothed whales? To put it simply, baleen whales have no teeth, while toothed whales have teeth, and baleen whales have a mostly gentle personality, while toothed whales have mostly fierce and brutal personalities, the more famous whales among baleen whales are blue whales and humpback whales, while the more famous of the toothed whales are killer whales and sperm whales. Many people think that killer whales are the largest toothed whales, but this is not the case, compared with sperm whales, killer whales are still very small, an adult sperm whale is equivalent to four or five killer whales, so sperm whales are the largest toothed whales.
The limit of killer whales can grow to 9 meters long and weigh 9 tons, while the limit of sperm whales can reach 20 meters long and weigh 50 tons, and the size of sperm whales has exceeded that of some large baleen whales, but fortunately, sperm whales do not feed on baleen whales like Melville whales, otherwise the existence of sperm whales is a huge disaster for many baleen whales, sperm whales like to eat squid creatures, and squid mostly live in the deep sea, so sperm whales are natural diving experts, they can easily dive to the bottom of the sea and prey on squid Many people also like to call sperm whales the "diving champions" of the animal kingdom.
Killer whales and sperm whales are both toothed whales, so which is more powerful? In fact, killer whales rarely provoke sperm whales, because sperm whales are large, and they are also a group creature, although their cluster size is not necessarily the size of the killer whale swarm, but because of the huge size of the sperm whale, so an adult male sperm whale can fight with several killer whales, so it is rare for killer whale swarms to actively attack sperm whale swarms, but single juvenile and female sperm whales are sometimes attacked by killer whales, but single killer whales are certainly not rivals of sperm whales, even if they encounter single females or juvenile sperm whales After all, the size advantage is there, the lion is no matter how strong, it can't fight the elephant, and the killer whale is not facing a docile elephant, but a fierce sperm whale.
There are also some studies that show that killer whales will actively enter their territory of adult male sperm whales, but will not fight with it, adult male sperm whales will also recognize the active evacuation, they are more passing by, or they all understand that each other is capable of killing themselves, no one needs to play with their lives, right?
So do sperm whales have predators? Killer whales are certainly not natural enemies of sperm whales, although killer whales will hunt and kill some old, sick and disabled sperm whales, but the probability of such an event is not very large, so killer whales are not natural enemies of sperm whales. There have been some studies that show that large squid in the deep sea can cause harm to sperm whales, so can large squid in the deep sea be said to be the natural enemies of sperm whales?
In fact, it is not, there are two main kinds of large squid in the deep sea, one is the king squid, the other is the giant gun squid, they are huge, usually the body length can reach more than ten, twenty meters, but their weight is not very large, usually only a few hundred kilograms, the large one can grow to one or two tons, compared to the sperm whale at every few tens of tons They do not have any advantage, although their tentacles will cause some damage to the sperm whale, but it is just to leave some scars on the huge body of the sperm whale. Although there are some cases of sperm whales being suffocated by the tentacles of large squid, but this kind of thing is rare after all, lions catching buffalo may also be killed, is it the natural enemy of the lion? Of course not, so large squid is not a natural enemy of sperm whales.
With its huge size, sperm whales actually have no natural enemies in the ocean, but they may exist on land, and in the era of marine development, sperm whales have been hunted by humans. Because of the large size, slow swimming speed, large number, easy to hunt, according to incomplete statistics, there are 600,000 sperm whales in the past two hundred years have been killed, but it is worth mentioning that humans in the last century has been banned from killing whales on a large scale, so the current number of sperm whales has been relatively stable, and there is a slow growth trend.