How To Use Cachalot In A Sentence
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Squids are favorite meal of cachalots; they usually eat rather small squids of 4-6 kilograms and gulp them in schools.
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There are three kinds of whale; the Greenland, called by the sailors the right whale, as being most highly prized by them; the great northern rorqual, called by fishers the razor-back or finner, and the cachalot or spermaciti whale.
Thrilling Stories Of The Ocean From Authentic Accounts Of Modern Voyagers And Travellers; Designed For The Entertainment And Instruction Of Young People
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The cachalot is a disagreeable creature, more tadpole than fish, according to
Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
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Three days after, when the carcass of the _cachalot_ had been "flensed" and tried out, and the whaler had once more proceeded upon her cruise, she chanced upon a spot where the sea was strewn with a variety of objects, among which were two or three spars of a ship, and several empty water-casks.
The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea
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Having in our turn described to him our adventure with the cachalot whale, I asked him if he knew of a suitable spot for the anchorage of the yacht.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 3
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The surrounding sea is visited by dolphins, cachalots and whales.
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Legendary whales appear as immense cachalots and tend to appear ghostly, with white or very light grey hides that meld in with the briney foam.
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Toothed whales are divided into three groups: the cachalots, the porpoises and the dolphins.
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I'm helping a friend who has to do some researches on giant squids and cachalots (all kinds of info would be welcome) and I thought that this may be a good place to ask.
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The cachalot is a disagreeable creature, more tadpole than fish, according to Fredol's description.
Vingt mille lieues sous les mers. English
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But as perhaps fifty of these whale-bone whales are harpooned for one cachalot, some philosophers of the forecastle have concluded that this positive havoc has already very seriously diminished their battalions.
Moby Dick; or the Whale
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The mystery was explained; for, as the great beast emerged yet further from the water, I recognized, from its enormous size and great length of head, the cachalot whale.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 3
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They can become at least 18 meters long, and cachalots and other whales are often seen with scars from their suckers.
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One cachalot killed, it ran at the next, tacked on the spot that it might not miss its prey, going forwards and backwards, answering to its helm, plunging when the cetacean dived into the deep waters, coming up with it when it returned to the surface, striking it front or sideways, cutting or tearing in all directions and at any pace, piercing it with its terrible spur.
Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
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What whalers term schools are assemblages of female cachalots in large numbers - from twenty to a hundred, together with their young, called calves, and piloted by one or more adult males, called bulls.
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The Abraham Lincoln checked its speed and made for the animal signalled, a simple whale, or common cachalot, which soon disappeared amidst a storm of abuse.
Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
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Seeing as they know that cachalots need quite an amount of food, and seeing as we know how much cachalots exist, we can make an estimate of how much Giant Squids are alive.
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The sperm whale, or cachalot, is one of the cetaceans, a group of marine mammals whose ancestors were probably land animals.
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No one could better describe the macrocephalous cachalot, which is sometimes more than seventy-five feet long.
Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
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They have plenty of natural enemies - cachalots, swordfish, and sawfish - without you troubling them.