Angel
Spermaceti and the name "sperm whale" come from the fact that the clear
spermaceti oil dries into a white, waxy substance that people used to
believe was the sperm of the whale.
Best
Peter
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 11:04:35 -0400 "angel" <criket_13@hotmail.com>
writes:
i heard that they came up with the name sperm whale because the
spermaceti oil is the same color as a males semen, is this true?
-Angel
criket_13@hotmail.com
Peter M."Skip" Scheifele LCDR USN (Ret.)
NURC NA&GL Director of Bioacoustic Research;
Animal Science Department,
Animal Bioacoustics/Neuroanatomy Researcher
University of Connecticut
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