Sperm from a whale

Curators' Corner. The ban improved human-sperm whale relations but made the study of whales more difficult. It is the only living member of the genus Physeter and one of three extant species in the sperm whale family , along with the pygmy sperm whale and dwarf sperm whale of the genus Kogia. Northern bottlenose whale H. Destinations: Lofoten, Greenland, Svalbard, Iceland. Visit Antarctica hub. But even after decades of study, basic elements of sperm whale biology and behavior are poorly understood.