. The American natural history; a foundation of useful knowledge of the higher animals of North America. Natural history. WHEN WHALES ARE HARPOONED 143 ness. Small whales of two or three species are killed in adjacent waters, towed to the stations, and hauled up on ways. In a single day a whale forty feet long is completely worked up, and practically every part of the animal yields a commercially valuable product. When a whale is struck by a harpoon, it dives deeply to escape its foes, and remains under water as long as BOW-HEAD WHALE. Balaena mysticetus. The comfortable period for
. The American natural history; a foundation of useful knowledge of the higher animals of North America. Natural history. WHEN WHALES ARE HARPOONED 143 ness. Small whales of two or three species are killed in adjacent waters, towed to the stations, and hauled up on ways. In a single day a whale forty feet long is completely worked up, and practically every part of the animal yields a commercially valuable product. When a whale is struck by a harpoon, it dives deeply to escape its foes, and remains under water as long as BOW-HEAD WHALE. Balaena mysticetus. The comfortable period for a whale to remain under water is fifteen minutes, but in feeding below the surface, this is often extended to twenty-five minutes. Harpooned whales sometimes descend 300 feet and lie on the muddy bottom of a shallow sea for a period of from fifty minutes to an hour and twenty minutes. But whalers know that their victim must sooner or later come to the surface or drown. As a whale reaches the sur- face, it immediately discharges its breath from the blow- holes situated on top of its head. A whale does not spout water, but the breath which comes from its lungs is so heavily laden with moisture that at a little distance it looks like water,. 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 Hornaday, William Temple, 1854-1937. New York, C. Scribner's Sons
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