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Ted: Ted Ed: The Physics of Human Sperm vs. the Physics of the Sperm Whale

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Traveling is extremely arduous for microscopic sperm- think of a human trying to swim in a pool made of other humans. We can compare the journey of a sperm to that of a sperm whale by calculating the Reynolds number, a prediction of how fluid will behave, often fluctuating due to size of the swimmer. Aatish Bhatia explores the great sperm's journey. [4:17]

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