The odd, enduring appeal of a scarce commodity few people use and no one really needs Text by Mark Wilding, Illustrations by Aurélie Beatley, Hakai In a sparsely furnished office building in the ...
Ambergris, that versatile sperm whale excretion that Herman Melville wrote so prodigiously about when the ocean was just a Dave & Buster’s for murdering sperm whales, can be a pretty valuable ...
Believe it or not, puke from sperm whales, or ambergris, is a valuable ingredient in perfumes and certain medicines. To protect the animal, collecting and selling ambergris is prohibited in many ...