sperm

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Nicole Nel, operations and laboratory manager at the London Sperm Bank, believes the shortage is not due to a "lack of applicants" in the UK, but "the lack in the quality of the applicants".

From BBC • Sep. 30, 2024

Sperm whales communicate through rhythmic patterns of clicks called codas.

From Science Daily • May 16, 2024

Sperm whales have the biggest brains of any animal on the planet at up to 20 pounds, as much as six times the size of an average human brain.

From Seattle Times • May 7, 2024

First reported by journalist Nellie Bowles in The New York Times, there’s an entire ecosystem where intended parents are joining Facebook groups like Sperm Donation USA to find private sperm donors.

From Salon • Mar. 29, 2024

Sperm oil is a brilliant illuminator, but we never knew any one except an Esquimaux, or a Russian, who preferred it to lavender-water as a perfume.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 23, 1841 by Various