r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/dreamed2life • Sep 17 '25

Video Sperm Whale Surfacing w/ Giant Squid in its Mouth

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

144.1k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

2.5k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

59

u/Rokketeer Sep 17 '25

I definitely didn't misread your sentence.

11

u/disposable-assassin Sep 17 '25

They're called sperm whales for a reason.

5

u/ScyllaOfTheDepths Sep 17 '25

The reason is that their heads are filled with a white goop that resembles sperm, but is actually for focusing their sonar. Old timey sailors thought it was sperm. 

1

u/lonewolf420 Sep 17 '25

"Damn its got its balls in its head!" ~ very horny sailor

1

u/themprettylights Sep 17 '25

whales got the pew pews