2024年11月26日 · The effects of climate and oceanographic change on sperm whales are uncertain, but both can potentially affect habitat and food availability. Whale migration, feeding, and breeding locations for sperm whales may be influenced by factors such as ocean currents and water temperature.

2024年1月11日 · Female sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) travel in groups with their young, circling the oceans to find food, they may travel a million miles in a lifetime. Inhabiting warmer waters than the males who thrive in the Arctic, they must meet up in …

Scientists have long wondered why whales—baleens, such as humpbacks and blues, and toothed whales, such as sperm and killer whales—travel up to 18,840 kilometers every year between their feeding grounds in polar waters and warmer, tropical seas.

Male sperm whales are wanderers and in some cases may end up traveling the entire worlds oceans throughout their 70 year lifespan. While these whales do migrate towards warmer tropical climates during mating periods male whales don’t follow a particular route or have any notable migration patterns.

Unlike other whale species, sperm whales do not appear to stick to a predetermined migration pattern. Female whales and calves typically remain in tropical climates throughout the year. In contrast, male whales will make trips to colder temperature higher latitude locations when not mating and back to warmer tropical climates during the mating ...

Male sperm whales lead a mostly solitary life after reaching sexual maturity between 9 and 20 years of age and travel into regions as high as lat. 70°N in the North Atlantic and lat. 70°S in the Southern Ocean (Reeves and Whitehead, 1997). General …

Distribution and Migration. Sperm whales are found in all oceans of the world. The males, alone or in groups, are found in higher latitudes. From time to time they migrate toward lower latitudes, and only the largest mature males appear to enter the breeding grounds close to the equator.

Migration takes a different turn when your hunting ground is measured on a global scale. Meet the sperm whale, Physeter macrocephalus, the largest extant predator on planet Earth. These toothed marine mammals are enormous, with many growing to over fifty feet long and weighing nearly fifty tons.

2025年1月24日 · Migration takes a different turn when your hunting ground is measured on a global scale. Meet the sperm whale, Physeter macrocephalus, the largest extant predator on planet Earth. These toothed marine mammals are enormous, with many growing to over fifty feet long and weighing nearly fifty tons.

As we are now approaching the middle of autumn, sperm whales are again migrating over the deep trench between the islands of Ikaria, Chios, and Samos, a migration that we have been recording them making for the past two decades.