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Why is the narwhal called the unicorn of the sea?<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Did you know that unicorns exist? Only not in the meadow, like in fairy tales, but in the Arctic seas, among the ice floes! This is a narwhal - a small polar whale, from whose head sticks out a long straight horn. In ancient times, sailors found these horns on the shores and sold them as "unicorn horns." Queens paid thousands of gold for one such horn!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the most amazing thing is not a horn. It's... a tooth! Yes, yes, a giant tooth that grows through the narwhal's upper lip and grows up to 3 meters long. A person has a tooth in their mouth, but a narwhal has one on the outside! Interestingly, this tusk is found almost only in males. And it is twisted in a spiral to the left - in all of them, without exception. That's how nature decided.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For a long time, scientists argued about why the narwhal had such a tooth. To fight? To break ice? Only recently did they learn something amazing: the tusk is a sensory organ! It has 10 million tiny nerves, and it senses the temperature of the water, its salinity, and pressure. Imagine \u2014 like a superantenna! The narwhal can understand where there is a fish, and where there is a dangerous ice trap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Narwhals live in very cold waters off Greenland and Canada. They dive 1,500 meters deep\u2014deeper than 5 Eiffel Towers stacked on top of each other! And they can hold their breath for 25 minutes. There are up to 20 of them in a group\u2014and they all sing strange sounds, as if they are communicating in the language of the ocean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next time someone says unicorns don't exist, tell them about the narwhal. The magic is real. It just hides on the icy bottom of the sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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More interesting facts about animals at on the category page<\/a> \u2728<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n

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