sperm whales taking a nap

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   Global Museum (globalmuseum@mastodon.online)'s status on Friday, 30-Aug-2024 08:39:01 JST Global Museum

   When sperm whales need a nap, they take a deep breath, dive down about 45 feet and arrange themselves into perfectly-level, vertical patterns. They sleep sound and still for up to two hours at a time between breaths, in pods of 5 or 6 whales, presumably for protection. No one knew whales slept vertically until a 2008 study documented the behavior. And no one captured really good photography of it in the wild until 2017.

   📸 Patrick Dykstra
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