. The animal creation: a popular introduction to zoology. Zoology. 488 CETACEA. The lower jaw, totally destitute of teeth, lodges a fleshy tongue of stupendous bulk, which, when tlie mouth is closed, compresses all the interior of the upper jaw and the plates of whalebone suspended from its roof. This structui-e of the mouth does not allow the Whales to live upon animals so large as their size would lead us to suppose. They subsist principally on small fish, but still more on worms, molluscs, and zoophytes, wliich become entangled in the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanne
. The animal creation: a popular introduction to zoology. Zoology. 488 CETACEA. The lower jaw, totally destitute of teeth, lodges a fleshy tongue of stupendous bulk, which, when tlie mouth is closed, compresses all the interior of the upper jaw and the plates of whalebone suspended from its roof. This structui-e of the mouth does not allow the Whales to live upon animals so large as their size would lead us to suppose. They subsist principally on small fish, but still more on worms, molluscs, and zoophytes, wliich become entangled in the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Jones, Thomas Rymer, 1810-1880. London : Society for Promoting Knowledge
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