Chapter 1 The Mighty Whale Moby-Dick is the most famous book ever written about a whale The author Herman Melville understood that an animal as unusual as a whale would make a great main character While Moby Dick did not really exist the book was based on a real whale and the true story of a terrible shipwreck The Super-sized Sperm Whale Moby Dick was a species of whale called a sperm whale Sperm whales are absolutely gigantic Each can weigh up to 50 tons 100,000 pounds 45,359 kilograms and grow to more than 60 feet 18 meters long
Moby Dick or The White Whale By Herman Melville Illustrated by Mead Schaeffer New York Dodd Mead and Company MCMXXXIV clover park Jupiter high school Written more than 150 years ago Moby-Dick is one of the great classics of American literature
Sperm whales have huge heads and the largest brains of any animal Sperm whales are the largest toothed predators in the world A predator is an animal that eats other animals Each tooth in the whale’s jaw is nearly a foot 30 centimeters long Yet surprisingly it does not even Imagine That A sperm whale is heavier than seven elephants put together and longer than the length of five boxcars on a freight train
bother chewing most of what it eats but rather swallows its food whole Sperm whales eat more than a ton 907 kg of food every day What they like to eat most are giant squid To find these they have to dive very deep in the ocean almost two miles three kilometers down Giant squid are not easy prey either As long as a school bus with wide staring eyes the size of Frisbees the squid are fierce fighters But sperm whales almost always win the battle feeding on hundreds of squid daily Giant squid may be scary looking and fierce fighters but sperm whales still manage to eat seven hundred of them on an average day
