The Bookshelf for boys and girls Book of Wonders and Curious Things (1912)
University Society, New York · New York: University Society · leaf 115
ve or six dollars a pound, and six thou-sand or more gallons of oil worth forty cents agallon. In feeding, the baleen whales drop the lowerjaw and swim forward rapidly, and all kinds ofsmall floating animals—fish, shrimp, winged mol-lusks—-pass into the yawning mouth. When thelower jaw is closed,… … SPERM-WHALE DEVOURING A LARGE OCTOPUS. Some of the baleen whales are said to attain alength of more than a hundred feet, and thereare authentic records of examples measuringbetween ninety and a hundred feet. The largestspecies of whale, and therefore the largest of allliving animals and the largest…
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