Oct 5, 2025
Day 4: Sona
my scugsona. my day be so fine. then boom. thousand king vulture attack
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Day 4: Sona
my scugsona. my day be so fine. then boom. thousand king vulture attack
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Genus Kogia - the little Sperm whales
And another infographic. I’m really liking this way of showing off work, feels a bit more visually appealing than just bare illustrations. This time it’s the turn of the mini sperm whales. Even though they look somewhat similar to Sperm whales, they are in a separate family, Kogiidae. It’s interesting how often they strand, given their low sighting rate at sea. They may simply be overlooked or misidentified: they tend to keep a low profile, and aren’t very demonstrative (though Dwarf sperm whales occasionally breach).
Even when stranded, the two species can be surprisingly difficult to identify. The most obvious difference lies in the size and position of the dorsal fin. A useful tool on ‘textbook’ individuals, but some animals have a relatively big/small dorsal fin for their species, positioned more in the middle. Another ID tool lies in their markings. Quite noticeable is the ‘false gill’ both these species have - a possible form of Batesian mimicry to look like a shark. In the Pygmy sperm whale this gill mark takes a sort of bracket shape, with a recurved bottom, while in the Dwarf it tends to be straight. There might be a slight difference in overall body markings as well, and from what I’ve seen Pygmies seem to have a somewhat longer head than Dwarfs, but this would be hard to use in the field. Interestingly, some Pygmy sperm whales turn up with more contrasting colouration and speckles all over. Perhaps older individuals? Also, both have these dark ‘eye patches’ which I think is very cute. I hope you enjoy and maybe learn something new about these mysterious whales!
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Dwarf sperm whale (Kogia simus)
The dwarf sperm whale inhabits temperate and tropical oceans worldwide, in particular continental shelves and slopes. It was first described by biologist Richard Owen, in 1866. The species was considered to be synonymous with K. breviceps from 1878 until 1998. Its appearance is very similar to the K. breviceps, distinguished mainly by the position of the dorsal fin on the body, which is nearer the middle on K. simus. The dwarf sperm whale is a suction feeder that mainly eats squid, and does this in small pods of typically 1 to 4 members. It is preyed upon by the killer whale and large sharks such as the great white shark. When startled, the whale can eject a cloud of red-brown fluid, similar to a squid. The dwarf sperm whale is hunted in small numbers around Asia. It is more threatened by ingesting or getting entangled by marine debris. No global population estimate has been made, and so its conservation status by the IUCN is data deficient.
Classification Animalia - Chordata - Mammalia - Eutheria - Boreoeutheria - Laurasiatheria - Scrotifera - Euungulata - Artiodactyla - Artiofabula - Cetruminantia - Whippomorpha - Cetacea - Odontoceti - Physeteroidea - Kogiidae - Kogiinae - Kogia - K. simus
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Two additional illustrations made for my previous series on cetaceans in Nicaragua (part 1 and part 2). The client asked for these species after they too had been spotted in Nicaraguan waters, bringing the total number of cetacean species up to 18. Since these illustrations were done super quick (like the others) they are kinda rough. So I put them together and tried to make it a bit more interesting to look at.
Despite the quick painting, these are pretty cool whales. The killer whales here belong to the ETP, a very widespread ecotype of tropical killer whales. They’re often more brownish in colour and sometimes have a very faint or even completely absent saddle patch. Dwarf sperm whales have fake ‘gill markings’ - presumably to make them look more like sharks - and can secrete a dark liquid as a defence mechanism when frightened, just like squid. Fun fact: a killer whale has been seen hunting a dwarf sperm whale in The Bahamas.
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art improvement meme... haaaaaaaaa i hope to get better at what i’m still unconfident about
I’ve been so busy with the illustrations.. I all but forgot to keep you guys updated on them! Six new cetaceans have joined the ranks of the MARS (Marine Animal Response Society) commission: five bulb-headed friends and one beauty ;) Although, they’re all beautiful if you ask me.
Most species will be by represented by a single image, but a few have separate illustrations for males and females, when the sexes differ significantly from each other. The northern bottlenose whales here are the first example of such a species. Today it’ll be the turn of another beaked whale pair, and a third illustration featuring another species.
