Exactly what the title says it is.
This is adapted from Monsters and Villains of the Movies and Literature by Gerrie McCall, Dragons: Fearsome Monsters from Myth and Fiction by Gerrie McCall, and Mythical Monsters by Chris McNab.
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MOUTH: The jaw bone makes up about one-quarter of the whale's overall length. The mouth contains 20 to 26 pairs of cone-shaped teeth measuring 3 to 8 inches (8 to 20 cm) long. HEAD: The whale uses its gigantic, scarred head as a battering ram. His brain is the largest and heaviest of any mammal, modern or extinct.
BODY: Moby Dick is the largest living carnivore on Earth, measuring 60 feet (18 m) long. His weight is estimated at 150 tons (136 tonnes).
Concealed in the depths of the Atlantic Ocean, Moby Dick strikes out unexpectedly. The white whale is the largest toothed animal alive, and no whaling ship can defeat him. Moby Dick fights giant squid, his favorite food, and bears the scars on his head where the squid's suckers have grabbed him. Captain Ahab and his crew set out in the whaling ship Pequod to kill Moby Dick. Ahab wears an ivory peg leg to replace the leg he lost to Moby Dick on a previous hunt. Ahab refers to the vicious whale as a "devil fish."
Ahab must have revenge for his lost leg. For three days, Moby Dick battles the Pequod. The whale destroys its hunting boats, rams the ship with its giant head, and sinks it. Only one crew member, named Ishmael, and Captain Ahab remain. Every other member is drowned in the struggle. Ahab hurls harpoons at the beast until he lands one in its hide, but Moby Dick drags Ahab into the cold ocean depths to his death. Ishmael is the sole survivor.
DID YOU KNOW?
The Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex, by Owen Chase, inspired Herman Mellville's novel Moby Dick. Published in 1821, Chase's account told of the sinking of a ship after it was repeatedly attacked and rammed by a whale.
In the 1830's, a giant white whale called Mocha Dick was killed off the coast of Chile. Mocha Dick had a very bad habit of attacking whaling ships.
A whale like Moby Dick can stay underwater for up to two hours without surfacing for air.
Even though t resembles an enormous fish, the whale is actually a mammal.
