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The sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) was a large cetacean, a whale, indigenous to planet Earth. Unlike baleen whales, sperm whales had teeth which they used to catch giant squid thousands of feet down in the sea. (TOS movie & novelization: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home)

Humans once hunted sperm whales for their meat, blubber, and ambergris. (TOS movie: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home; TAS episode: "The Ambergris Element")

In the novel Moby Dick by Herman Melville, Moby Dick was a white sperm whale. (TOS novelization: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home)

The image of a sperm whale appeared on a display within the HMS Bounty when Spock searched for a match for the sounds of the Cetacean Probe amongst Earth's animals.

In the year 1986, models of the sperm whale and pygmy sperm whale were displayed in a glass case at the Cetacean Institute in Sausalito, California. (TOS movie: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home)

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Earth cetacean species
Baleen whales blue whalefin whalegray whalehumpback whaleminke whaleright whalesei whale
Toothed whales Atlantic bottlenose dolphinBaird's beaked whaleCuvier's beaked whalepilot whaleorcaPacific bottlenose dolphinpygmy sperm whalesperm whaleTakaya's whale

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