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Prehensile Penis?

This unusual musculature should be described in some detail for all aquatic mammals, as a correct body positioning in the water (for successful copulation) may be more difficult to obtain.

Sperm whale maximum weight

In Guinness book of animal facts and feats is quoted in page 30 this :"at least 80 tonnes", for the biggest male ever captured which was 20,7m. https://archive.org/stream/guinnessbookofan00wood#page/29/mode/2up/search/moose — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.48.210.235 (talk) 20:04, 27 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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In the subsection Diet of the section Ecology, Octopoteuthis should be linked.2A02:C7D:1E0C:0:2D32:5122:6C0B:9168 (talk) 15:52, 16 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Rivertorch^FIRE_WATER 18:04, 16 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Please remove the 3D model captioned "Sperm whale jaw 3d", it is obviously incorrect because sperm whales have two rows of teeth in their lower jaws (like every other toothed vertebrate) 128.189.204.121 (talk) 17:33, 5 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the {{edit semi-protected}} template. — LeoFrank ^Talk 09:20, 6 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Elmidae do you agree that the model is wrong? 128.189.200.29 (talk) 23:34, 13 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, I hadn't noticed this had snuck onto the page again. A correct model of half a lower mandible (what this purports to be) would actually be useful and informative; however, this is clearly a type of bas-relief merely mirrored in the x-y plane. It's the kind of 3D model you get when you extrapolate from a 2D model without extra data, and it's insufficient at best and actively misleading at worst. We had some discussions about identically produced models recently (Wikipedia:WikiProject_Dinosaurs/Image_review#Is_this_accurate?) and consensus was that they are unsuitable for use in articles. I am removing this one. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 09:44, 14 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

=== moby dick

Is it a coincidence that Moby dick is a sperm whale? ===

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 {{u|Elmidae}} do you agree that the model is wrong? [[Special:Contributions/128.189.200.29|128.189.200.29]] ([[User talk:128.189.200.29|talk]]) 23:34, 13 July 2018 (UTC)
 :I agree, I hadn't noticed this had snuck onto the page again. A <i>correct</i> model of half a lower mandible (what this purports to be) would actually be useful and informative; however, this is clearly a type of [[bas-relief]] merely mirrored in the x-y plane. It's the kind of 3D model you get when you extrapolate from a 2D model without extra data, and it's insufficient at best and actively misleading at worst. We had some discussions about identically produced models recently ([[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Dinosaurs/Image_review#Is_this_accurate?]]) and consensus was that they are unsuitable for use in articles. I am removing this one. --<span style="font-family:Courier">[[User:Elmidae|Elmidae]]</span> <small>([[User talk:Elmidae|talk]] · [[Special:contributions/Elmidae|contribs]])</small> 09:44, 14 July 2018 (UTC)
+=== moby dick
+Is it a coincidence that Moby dick is a sperm whale? ===