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PBS Investigates a Sperm Whale From the Outside In
Watch Inside Nature’s Giants: “Sperm Whale” – Preview on PBS. See more from Inside Nature’s Giants.
[Inside Nature’s Giants – “Sperm Whale” – will air via PBS stations on Wednesday, January 18th.]
The first episode of Inside Nature’s Giants doesn’t waste any time before winding up elbow-deep in whale viscera. Within a few minutes of the show’s premiere – which features a dissection of a sperm whale that died along the southeast cost of England – expert anatomists Joy Reidenberg and Mark Evans stand in widening pools of whale blood, oil, and gore as they work to quickly and efficiently probe the peculiar secrets of the world’s largest toothed whale. This is