The Fish and Wildlife Foundation of Florida ... for whalers who wanted to use the waxy substances in the whale’s heads, called spermaceti, for oil. Now that whaling is no longer a major threats ...

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. Nancy Shoemaker considers the four main products harvested in the nineteenth-century Pacific sperm whale trade: oil, spermaceti, ambergris ...

Johns County Beach Services and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation ... Calves are born at 1 meter (3.3 feet). The whale is named after spermaceti, a waxy substance found in its head ...