Discovery reports (1929) Discovery reports discoveryreports01257540inst Year: 1929 T r r JULY AUG. SEPT. OCT SOUTH AFRICA >⢠Fig. 107. Female Fin whales. Monthly average thickness of blubber. - Whales more than 20-0 m. long (excluding pregnant and lactating whales). - Whales less than i8-o m. long. cQm Pes T 1 1 r OCT. NOV. DEC. JAN. FEB. MAR -< SOUTH GEORGIA r APR. T MAY T 1 1 r JUNE JULY AUG. SEPT. OCT -â Fig. 108. Female Blue whales. Monthly average thickness of blubber. â Whales more than 23-0 m. long (excluding pregnant and lactating whales). - Whales less than 19-0 m. long. T
Discovery reports (1929) Discovery reports discoveryreports01257540inst Year: 1929 T r r JULY AUG. SEPT. OCT SOUTH AFRICA >⢠Fig. 107. Female Fin whales. Monthly average thickness of blubber. - Whales more than 20-0 m. long (excluding pregnant and lactating whales). - Whales less than i8-o m. long. cQm Pes T 1 1 r OCT. NOV. DEC. JAN. FEB. MAR -< SOUTH GEORGIA r APR. T MAY T 1 1 r JUNE JULY AUG. SEPT. OCT -â Fig. 108. Female Blue whales. Monthly average thickness of blubber. â Whales more than 23-0 m. long (excluding pregnant and lactating whales). - Whales less than 19-0 m. long. Turning now to the South African whales we see that the adult Fin whales make a late appearance in the catch at Saldanha Bay. Both Fin and Blue whales are very fat at the beginning of the season, as fat indeed as the end-of-season whales at South Georgia. This points to a migration to the African coast from rich feeding grounds, though not necessarily from the Dependencies of the Falkland Islands. Certainly they have
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