- Sperm Whale "Cachalot" Ceiling Lamp Moby-Dick
The sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus, Syn .: Physeter catodon) is a whale from the suborder of the toothed whale (Odontoceti) widespread in all oceans.
It is the only large whale among the toothed whales. Sperm whales feed mainly on squid and reach a depth of more than 1,000 meters.
The German name "Sperm Whale" refers to the head of the whale, which protrudes like a pot (Low German Pott). The English name "Sperm Whale" and the name of a so-called Spermaceti organ refer to the appearance and consistency reminiscent of sperm attributed to the whale council. The scientific names Physeter macrocephalus (horns - big head) and Physeter catodon (horns - teeth below) are used. The names were described by Linnaeus (Carl von Linné) in the 10th edition of his Systema Naturae in 1758 and declared synonymous by Thomas in 1911. So far, however, neither of the two names has finally prevailed.
Another name for the sperm whale, preferred in many European languages in corresponding variants, but rarely used in German, is Kaschelott, a Germanization of the French. cachalot, which in turn presumably goes back to an old Romance word for toothed.
Large bulls reach lengths of over 20 meters and weights of over 50 tons, making them the largest toothed animals on earth. However, individual specimens seem to be able to grow even larger, as some trophies from the time when sperm whales were still hunted on a large scale show. A pair of teeth over 30 cm long, for example, which are in the collection of the New Bedford Whaling Museum, suggest that the whale in question may have been well over 20 meters long and weighed over 100 tons. The females reach up to 12 m and a weight of 15 tons.
Due to past hunting, the populations are still so low that the sperm whale is considered endangered. Estimates of the population vary from 1 million animals to only around 360,000 specimens.
In the past, sperm whales were hunted by whalers, and besides the oil from the bacon (blubber), the spermaceti in the head and ambergris from the intestines were particularly popular. While ambergris found buyers mainly in the cosmetics industry, Spermaceti was processed into whale oil and whale rat.
Over 20,000 sperm whales were killed annually in the 1960s and 1970s. The whaling of the years 1987–2002 by members of the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling is given as a total of 206 animals.
Another threat is the swallowing of plastic waste. Deep-sea cables are also a danger for the animals, as they can also be close to the ground and get caught in the cables and drown. Accidents of this type occurred at a depth of over 1,000 m.
Item Description:
Material: 4mm wood
Weight: 0.800 kg
Dimensions about 41cm wide, 50cm teif and 48cm high.
including illuminant holder E14 and two-core connection cable
Delivery as 3D kit
We recommend fixing the individual components after positioning with glue.
We offer this lamp as a milled or lasered kit.
A) Lasered version:
With a laser-cut kit, lasering causes the edges to look burnt and possibly leaving traces of soot and smoke on the wood. These can be easily removed with fine sandpaper.
B) Lasered & ground:
This kit was laser cut and then reworked by us so that the soot and smoke traces were removed from the surface. Nevertheless, dark rams remain at the cut edges.
C) Milled version:
In a milled kit, the edges and surfaces are clean and in typical wood color and surface.
Notes on machining with laser:
All components are laser cut so that there is a "beautiful" front and a marked, production-related "bad" back. Make sure that the good side always points to the visible side.
These soot and smoke marks as well as the fact that wood is a natural product, which is dimensionally influenced by basic physical laws such as temperature and humidity, there are certain limitations in the nature of the products, which must be consciously accepted.
We offer the most careful choice of material and the most modern production methods, nevertheless one has to accept with wood the peculiarities and unimpeachable characteristics, which are to be observed again and again in the practice - therefore these can not be claimed by the buyer as a material defect.
