The Vomit of a Whale is called Floating Diamond. 🐋

The Vomit of a whale is called Ambergris or grey amber and also called floating diamonds. It is a solid and waxy like thing. It is flammable and light grey in color. These wax excrement from whale’s digestive system. Whale produces it to get protection of its guts from sharp beaks of its food. The wonder is that wax vomit is sweet, musk like and earthy smell. These waxy things found in tropical seas. It is also called floating diamond.

These floating diamonds used in manufacture of rare and costly perfumes and scents. Ambergris is soluble in alcohol, ether, chloroform and also in certain volatile oils.  This makes perfume last longer.  Dogs are used to search this ambergris.

Whale is endangered species therefore doing search and selling of ambergris is illegal by law. Whale is protected under the wildlife protection act since from 1970. The interesting fact is that this whale vomit is very costly worth some Millions per kilogram.



Other facts about whales 🐋 🐋 🐋 🐋 🐋

  • · Whale lives their whole life in water and having special qualities.
  • · There are more than 85 recognized spices of whales. In these spices only 3 spices     are sperm whales which produce the ambergris.
  • · Whales are much in common to human beings and are very social.
  • · Whales feed their babies with milk and teach them skills of hunting.
  • · They take good care of their young babies.
  • · They are unique, graceful and beautiful species.
  • · Baleen of bow head whale has 4 meter long and they can live for average 150 years.
  • ·Blue whale heart pumps fifty three thousand liters of blood a day.
  • · The blue whale is the biggest creature in the world.
  • · Female blue whales are larger than male blue whales.
  • · The sperm whales have the biggest brain, sized around 8000 Cubic Cm. They have a spermatozoa organ at their heads which is echolocation system 
          to them.
  • ·  Whales produce sound called whale song. This sound is long, complex and patterned sequenced sound.
  • · The life span of a blue whale is around 80 to 90 years and weighs more than hundred thousand kilograms.
  • · The Mink whale is the only smallest whale spices found in North America.
  • · The blue whale can swim at the speed of 30 kilometers per hour and they catch their pray by diving more than 500 meters deep into the oceans.
  • · Whales have tooth and the size and number varies from species to species. Male Nar whales have the biggest teeth at front of their mouth grows up to 9 feet.
  • · Killer whales are wise and interesting mammals and resembles dolphin a lot.
  • ·Killer whales are most social mammals they live in families called Matriarchal pods.
  • · A new born blue whale has average 23 feet long and weighs three tones.

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