. Discovery reports. Discovery (Ship); Scientific expeditions; Ocean; Antarctica; Falkland Islands. Fig. 6. Diagrams illustrating the posture of Fin whales swimming at high speed. The point in need of particular emphasis, is the insertion of the flukes on the peduncle. The majority of authors have shown the plane of the flukes to lie more or less midway between the dorsal and ventral contours of the peduncle, whereas in fact it is very distinctly nearer the ventral edge. In Fig. 7a, which is based on photographs published by True (1904, plate 11, fig. 4 and plate 14, figs, i, 2), two-thirds of
. Discovery reports. Discovery (Ship); Scientific expeditions; Ocean; Antarctica; Falkland Islands. Fig. 6. Diagrams illustrating the posture of Fin whales swimming at high speed. The point in need of particular emphasis, is the insertion of the flukes on the peduncle. The majority of authors have shown the plane of the flukes to lie more or less midway between the dorsal and ventral contours of the peduncle, whereas in fact it is very distinctly nearer the ventral edge. In Fig. 7a, which is based on photographs published by True (1904, plate 11, fig. 4 and plate 14, figs, i, 2), two-thirds of the peduncle are shown dorsal to the plane of the flukes and in southern Blue and Fin whales it is approximately the same (Plate XXXIII, fig. 6; Fig. ^b). Collett (1886, plate XXV, fig. i) and Olsen (1913, plate CXI, fig. 7) have respectively shown the same thing for the Sei whale and Bryde's whale. dorsal edge / caudal peduncle. notch of fluke rigint fluke nr (sectioned) dorsa ed ge of peduncle. 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 Institute of Oceanographic Sciences (Great Britain); National Institute of Oceanography of Great Britain; Great Britain. Colonial Office. Discovery Committee. London ; New York : Cambridge University Press
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