Similarly worn teeth are also seen in other suction feeders such as sperm whales.
Connecticut also has a state animal (the sperm whale), state ship (USS Nautilus) and a state mineral (garnet).
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The substance, which is found in the digestive system of sperm whales, is valuable and used in perfume.
Ambergris is found in the innards of the sperm whale and used in perfumes after it has been vomited up.
With the massive whales come other giants of the sea, like whale sharks and sperm whales and occasionally hammerheads, sea lions and dolphins.
The sighting of sperm whales off Scotland's north-west coast in winter has been described as "extraordinary" by research charity Sea Watch.
Dr Mate explained that, with sperm whales, which dive to great depths, it was far more difficult to capture the behaviour.
Programs and sperm banks should expect inquiries from donor offspring and consider developing a written policy to respond to these inquiries.
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The navy has also noted the location of a sperm whale off Mull which was seen in Oban bay earlier this month.
Racers wax their boards with an old-fashioned preparation called "dope, " whose original recipe called for spermaceti--a fatty substance produced by sperm whales.
But, the researchers add that these findings will now assist further studies in revealing genetic and environmental factors that affect sperm length.
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The hard beaks of giant squid, a main source of food for sperm whales, have often been found inside lumps of ambergris.
Unlike rugged sperm and hardy embryos, human eggs and the ovaries that contain them have proved extremely difficult to freeze and resurrect.
First there was the study last fall correlating high levels of the chemical bisphenol A (BPA) with poor sperm formation in men.
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When the researchers compared the survey findings with the sperm test results they found the link between sedentary lifestyle and low sperm count.
However, they were identified as sperm whales by Nick Davies, who runs Gairloch-based Hebridean Whale Cruises and is involved in a Sea Watch project.
The sperm whale, a deep diving species, spent almost nine days in the shallow waters of Oban bay before swimming back out to sea.
In some cases, the customer knows who has donated the sperm, although rules determining the identity of the donor vary from country to country.
The scientists carried out the operation on 173 infertile men, and on average, found the men's sperm motility and count had improved within three months.
Dr Gruber expects to have a commercial sperm-sorter ready next year, and Arryx has already signed a deal to deploy it with a British dairy.
Instead, they used a measure called recombination distance, a gauge of how likely genes are to be reshuffled when sperm and egg cells are produced.
At the moment, would-be parents are offered a sperm "washing" technique prior to insemination, which removes cells and other detritus which can harbour the virus.
Though a physician would have tested the sperm for sexually transmitted diseases and certain genetic disorders, there are disincentives associated with going through a physician.
Now, that market in the sperm donor world accounts for less than 14 percent, according to projections by Charles Sims, the organization's co-founder and medical director.
In 1968, Dr. Edwards teamed with Dr. Steptoe to study fertilization and develop methods that would allow the sperm and egg to survive outside the womb.
Cryos of Denmark, the largest sperm bank in Europe with a catalogue of more than 400 donors, is one of the most popular among French lesbians.
The procedure involves injecting a clear gel into the vas deferens, the vessel through which sperm is transported to its launch site before leaving the body.
And the more inconsistently sized the sperm a man manufacturers, particularly with regard to the flagellum, the lower his concentration of sperm that could swim well.
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However, the researchers managed to produce two healthy baby mice from heated sperm, and genetic analysis suggested that no damage to the DNA had been suffered.
With human cloning technology just around the corner and enough frozen sperm in the world to already populate many generations, perhaps we should perform a cost-benefit analysis.
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