All about animalsFacts, stories and anecdotes . s belongs to this same family, although it is a very differentcreature. In the first place, it is much larger than the porpoise, often meas-uring twenty-five to thirty feet in length. What the porpoise is to the smallfish of our shores, the grampus is to the large ones of the Arctic regions, pur-suing them with an appetite which never seems satisfied. On several occasionsyoung dolphins and porpoises, as well as cod, skate, and halibut, have beenfound in the grampuss stomach. One of their favorite amusements is mob-bing the huge Greenland whale. T
All about animalsFacts, stories and anecdotes . s belongs to this same family, although it is a very differentcreature. In the first place, it is much larger than the porpoise, often meas-uring twenty-five to thirty feet in length. What the porpoise is to the smallfish of our shores, the grampus is to the large ones of the Arctic regions, pur-suing them with an appetite which never seems satisfied. On several occasionsyoung dolphins and porpoises, as well as cod, skate, and halibut, have beenfound in the grampuss stomach. One of their favorite amusements is mob-bing the huge Greenland whale. They spring out of the water and catch thewhale with blows of their tails. It is said that the sword-fish also joins inthe fun and prevents the whale from diving by threatening it with its cannot be proved, but it has been noticed that the whale takes a series THE DOLPHIN. of little dives and rises quickly to the surface, which shows that somethingbelow keeps it from sinking to a depth where the grampus could not follow. THE The Dolphin has been called the poet of the sea. Shakespeare wroteabout the mermaid on a dolphins back, uttering such dulcet and harmoniousbreath, that the rude sea grew civil at her song. As a matter of fact, there isnothing poetical about the dolphin. It is a great big hungry beast, alwaysracing up and down the ocean like the rest of its family, in search of some-thing to eat. Its swimming is very graceful, and when it comes alongside aship one cannot help admiring its magnificent sweeping motion. The fear-lessness of the dolphin often gets it into trouble, for sailors are very fond ofharpooning them with a steel trident. The dolphin swims quite close to theship when it is satisfied that no harm is intended, and then suddenly it is har-pooned from the bows and hauled kicking on deck, where it is quickly killed. Men frequently amuse themselves at sea by shooting with revolvers at adolphin. The bullets never do any harm, for they cannot
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