Social Organization in Sperm Whales, Physeter macrocephalus

作者: Peter B. Best

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4684-2985-5_7

关键词: SpermGeographySeasonal breederSocial organizationDemography

摘要: The cows with their young give from nothing up to 35 barrels, and seem go in schools together, we frequently see twenty-five fifty sometimes one hundred or more a school, occasionally large bull among them, at times, though seldom, find all sizes together. male whales separate the calves when about size of as seldom get them mother its make oil than that, bulls pods beyond that size; what call 40-barrel bulls, where they generally larger numbers do increase again smaller 50 60 eight ten 70 barrels four five, one, two, three....

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