The Bookshelf for boys and girls Book of Wonders and Curious Things (1912)
University Society, New York · New York: University Society · leaf 198
e eared seal. An inter-esting discovery about the porpoise is that it hason its back fin a number of horny knobs. Theseare the last remnants of the bony armor in whichsea-monsters were clothed after they had ceasedto wear a covering of hair. Porpoises are mag-nificent swimmers, and no fish can… … HARPOONING A PORPOISE FROM THE MARTINGALE STAY OF A WHALERFrom the paititinsr by Clifford W. Ashley MARVELS OF EARTH AND OCEAN 183 has a beak like (hat of a great bird, but in it aremore teeth than any other animal has—morethan 120. Its food is like that of the porpoise,but it likes shell-fish as…
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