Architecture of the sperm whale forehead facilitates ramming combat

Herman Melville’s novel Moby Dick was inspired by historical instances in which large sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus L.) sank 19th century whaling ships by ramming them with their foreheads. The immense forehead of sperm whales is possibly the largest, and one of the strangest, anatomical stru...

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Autores principales: Panagiotopoulou, Olga, Spyridis, Panagiotis, Mehari Abraha, Hyab, Carrier, David R., Pataky, Todd C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2016
Materias:
Animal Behavior
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4824896/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27069822
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1895

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4824896/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27069822
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1895

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