Whale carcass and remaining there for a few hours would relief symptoms of rheumatism. Whales continue to be prevalent in modern literature. For example, Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" features a "great white whale" as the main antagonist for Ahab, who eventually is killed by it. The whale is an albino sperm whale, considered by Melville to be the largest type of whale, and is partly based on the historically attested bull whale Mocha Dick. Rudyard Kipling's "Just So Stories" includes the story of "How the Whale got in his Throat". Niki Caro's film the "Whale Rider" has a Māori girl ride
Mesoplodont whale what effect this has on the population. Longman's beaked whale ("Indopacetus pacificus", also known as the Indo-Pacific beaked whale or the tropical bottlenose whale) was originally assigned to "Mesoplodon", but Joseph Curtis Moore placed it in its own genus, "Indopacetus", a taxonomic assignment which has been followed by all researchers. Two extinct species of "Mesoplodon" are known, "M. posti" and "M. slangkopi". Mesoplodont whale Mesoplodont whales are fifteen species of toothed whale in the genus Mesoplodon, making it the largest genus in the cetacean order. Two species were described as recently as 1991 (pygmy beaked whale) and 2002 (Perrin's beaked