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dfox
18-11-2005, 08:41 PM
On a resent fishing trip dad picked this sperm whale tooth up on the beach. The whale that it come from had been washed up and a group from the musium had removed the jaw and tail. The whale was over 18 meters long and must have been an old male, it had large great white bights out of it. The tooth is 21cm long and wieghs just over 1.5 pounds...foxy

DaveSue_Fishos_Two
18-11-2005, 08:57 PM
Bloody Hell!!!! That's goin straight to the pool room!

Dave

Why-ting
18-11-2005, 09:02 PM
Poor bastard! bout the bites out of him i mean. big tooth though.

DNO40
18-11-2005, 09:41 PM
Awsome stuff. those sperm whales are big...... :o

dasher
18-11-2005, 11:55 PM
Shyte I'd hate to be his dentist. :o ::) ;) ;D

Hookem_Herby
19-11-2005, 06:30 AM
Great stuff as usual Foxy!!! Thanks for sharing :)
So, errrrrr why DO them call them SPERM whales? :-? :o ::) ;D

Herby

revs57
19-11-2005, 07:00 AM
I reckon Dave (reel naughty) is right...straight to the pool room ;D ;D ;D

revs57
19-11-2005, 07:00 AM
hehehe I mean reel nauti...

sunny
19-11-2005, 07:31 AM
So, errrrrr why DO them call them SPERM whales? #:-? :o ::) ;D
Herby

Someone had to ask :P

They were called that because there's a space in the head somewhere thats filled with a white waxy substance that looks like err.. :-[ :-[
It used to be used as a lubricating oil for machines. I've seen one or two bottles collected off wrecks.

Somewhere in my magazine collection is an amazing article on a guy that photographed a pod of sperm whales while they were hunting. They are the only creature that regularly hunts giant squid and dive to incredible depths to catch them. When they do this, they form a ring on the surface and take turns diving down to find squid.

The article ends with a mindblowing shot of this guy swiming in the middle of a ring of the biggest predators living on earth.

Lucky_Phill
19-11-2005, 07:41 AM
Worth taking up a bit of " Scrimshaw " Dave.

Not too sure, but a El' Cheapo electric etching tool may do the job.

Then ya can flog it on Ebay for a Kazillion dollars !!!!!!!!

Good pic !

Cheers Phill

Billo
19-11-2005, 09:01 AM
yep .....thats big alright !

Gives you a good indication at the size of the mammoths

TonyM
19-11-2005, 09:20 AM
Bloody Hell!!!! That's goin straight to the pool room!

Dave

hehe

And who said "What the heck would we do with a whale tooth eh?" #;) #;D

I saw an ad in the Trading Post - a blokes got a scrimshaw carving tool ;)

Black_Rat
21-11-2005, 10:57 AM
I saw an ad in the Trading Post - a blokes got a scrimshaw carving tool #;)


What's he asking for it ? #;D ;D ;D

Punkin
22-11-2005, 04:09 AM
Tell 'im he's dreamin...... ;D ;)

blaze
22-11-2005, 05:24 AM
not a bad movie

CHRIS_aka_GWH
22-11-2005, 06:32 AM
Bloody Hell!!!! That's goin straight to the pool room!

Dave


i'd be making a necklace. Ya know to show up those shark tooth boys !