The nonfictional relationship between sperm whales and squid is pretty dramatic also. A single sperm whale can eat more than one ton of squid per day. They do eat giant squid on occasion ...

And that's what the sperm whale does," Whitehead said. "The sperm whale goes down there and eats all these strange squid, strange fish, whatever, and then it comes to the surface and it poops.

Interestingly, a giant sperm whale needs to eat 2,000 pounds a day, but its preference isn’t sharks — it prefers giant squid.

sperm whales are known to dive over 3,000 feet in search of squid to eat and generally live deep in the sea. The size of this whale was average for a sperm, as the massive mammals usually weigh ...

Sperm whale calls are far more complex than we thought ... They hunt their prey – mainly squid – using echolocation that involves streams of regular clicks. It was known that the whales ...

in a “rare” sighting, a sperm whale was observed swimming into the ... While traveling far below the surface, they hunt for squid, skates, sharks and other bottom-dwelling species.

Perfumers covet a rare kind of whale poop known ... is essentially a clump of squid beaks bound by a fatty secretion. Over time, it balls up in the intestine of some sperm whales.

HEARTSTOPPING footage shows the moment two giant whales move in to protect a diver from a bloodthirsty shark. Benoît Girodeau was diving off the coast of Mauritius when he was approached by an ...

Some of the most famous whale species are humpback whales, sperm whales ... Toothed whales usually eat larger prey, which can include fish, squid, octopus, seabirds, seals, penguins, sharks ...

Whales are always on the move, so they have to eat a lot to ... from the huge sperm whale to tiny, dog-sized porpoises. Dolphins, pilot whales and beaked whales are also odontocetes. These whales ...