Connecticut also has a state animal (the sperm whale), state ship (USS Nautilus) and a state mineral (garnet).
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Ambergris is found in the innards of the sperm whale and used in perfumes after it has been vomited up.
The navy has also noted the location of a sperm whale off Mull which was seen in Oban bay earlier this month.
The sperm whale, a deep diving species, spent almost nine days in the shallow waters of Oban bay before swimming back out to sea.
However, dead whales can explode naturally, such as when a sperm whale was being transported to a research centre in Tainan, Taiwan, in 2004.
Other images on show include a pygmy seahorse camouflaging itself among coral, a sperm whale investigating the photographer, and a bee-eater bird catching a dragonfly for his mate.
But after looking it up on the internet with his father, Alex, they discovered that it was likely to be a rare form of vomit from a sperm whale.
Rapacious and uncontrolled commercial whaling (most notably by Britain and America in the 18th and 19th centuries) did indeed drive many species, such as the right whale and the sperm whale, close to extinction.
Throw enough code at it and you can get a Ferrari to drive great in the snow, an Audi A8 with Quattro to drift like a tail-happy Toyota Supra, and you can get an 80-foot sperm whale I mean, a Jeep Grand Cherokee to corner like a sport sedan.
With the massive whales come other giants of the sea, like whale sharks and sperm whales and occasionally hammerheads, sea lions and dolphins.
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.
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