My Favorite Whale.

      It has been a few long weeks talking about the conservation of whales, and how we must fight to save our sea creatures numbers. But this blog I am going to talk about a lighter topic which is one of my favorite types of whales and about them.
Cachalot, Also known as the Sperm Whale. French for tooth or big tooth. The Cachalot is the largest toothed whale and the last living species of the Genus, Physeter. They were the first whale I laid my eyes on in person and have some special beauty to me. When I picture a whale they have the shape and body type that quickly comes to mind. 

     Sperm Whales have a huge head which is filled with a substance called Spermaciti. It is said to have some effect on the buoyancy of the whale, helping them swim down and float to the surface as well. This is where the word sperm in Sperm Whale comes from, not like whales reproductive sperm. That is a common misconception.  Full size male Sperm whales have been spotted up to 67 feet long, and 58 tons. Thats huge, but they say that whaling over the years has caused the species to seem smaller in size then before the second World War Because they are no longer able to grow to their full potential before they were killed, causing the breeding size to naturally shrink. Only in sperm whales, the head takes up about 1/3 of the actual body size. Making them probably the most distinctive of whales.

     Sperm whales contain the largest brains ever, modern, and extinct. About five times heavier then a humans at about 15-18 lbs. Although Sperm whales have the largest brains I find it interesting that they do not have the highest EQ level. Encephalization Quotient which according to Harvard research is essentially a Brain size, to body size intelligence number. But that does not discredit Sperm Whales as far as I am concerned. They are still beautiful amazing creatures that help our oceans ecosystems thrive and survive. So now I ask of you, Whats your favorite Whale species?

Save The Whales. 

Paul Watson stands beside his beauty the Bob Barker.

The world today will either be stepping forward into an era where conservation and the environment really matter, or it will be stepping back into the Dark Ages, where the people of the world think that slaughter of whales using grenades, electric lances and shooting them with rifles is something that we should accept. -Ian Campbell (Former Minister of Environment for Australia).   

      This is the main concern of mine. How are our animals supposed to continue to evolve and thrive if we can’t stop murdering them? This Blog I will be Introducing the anti-whaling group from my last blog, the Sea Shepards. For Thirty-Five years a Mister Paul Watson has been running and organizing the group on missions to stop cruelty to animals. Most importantly, Whales. They currently air the show Whale Wars on Animal Planet, which is a show about the missions that these dedicated people pull off for their cause. They put their lives on the line as well as their families back home on pause to spare as many whales lives as possible. The whale population is at a clear decline and Japan has put themselves in line for the issue. Ever since I saw the first episode of this show I have followed the group of anti-whalers and wanted to look more into it. Blue whales are the largest, and also the rarest whales. “There were once 220,000 Blues in Southern Ocean, reduced to around 500 now (up to 3000 worldwide) by past overhunting. This represents a reduction to approximately 0.2% of their original Antarctic population (or 1.5% worldwide). Despite being protected since the 1960s, their numbers have not recovered.” - C. George Muller (Author of Echos in the Blue). What? Can you imagine if that was a culture of people how big of an issue it would be for them to have died but these beautiful sacred creatures such as whales, it is all just the Whaling commission shaking their finger at Japan. 

 
      The Sea Shepards have already done so much in the fight with saving whales. In 2012 they sent the Japanese whalers back to Tokyo with over 800 whales short of their annual quota. Although the most recent news is that Paul Watson had to reside because of court rulings, hopefully someone with the same passion and love for the animals will take over with some great Strategies to save the beautiful creatures, to the best of their ability.