“The immense forehead of sperm whales is possibly the largest, and one of the strangest, anatomical structures in the animal kingdom.“ Leading to the question: ‘What’s it for?’ Herman Melville’s famous novel Moby-Dick suggested that one purpose might be for large-scale head-butting, the practicalities of which are reviewed in a new paper for PeerJ PrePrints, […]
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Sperm whale compared with sperm: Fluid dynamics
Sperm whales, sperm, the Reynolds number, Osborne Reynolds, Ed Purcell, and bacteria all figure in this short, clear video prepared by Aatish Bahaia and Brad Purnell: