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Right Whale and Sperm Up to 60 Feet Finners Up to 110 Feet. 1-Greenland Right Whale, Balaena Mysticeptus, up to 60 feet in length, generally found near Arctic ice. The smaller whalebone whale of the Atlantic and Southern oceans is somewhat similar in shape; it runs to 50 feet; shows tail as it dives; has no fin on back. It is called the Nordcapper or Biscayensis and Australis. 2- The Sperm or Cachalot,; Physeter Macrocephalus. A toothed whale 50 to 60 feet; shows tail when it dives; sometimes breaches,; i.e. leaps several times in succession as it travels; blast low and projected forward. 3- Seihvale, Balaenoptera Borealis, 40 to 50 feet; blast about 10 feet; does not usually lift tail out of water before final dive; has fin on back, is therefore a "finner.; 4- Fin whale, Balaenoptera Musculus, up to 75 feet. The blue whale Balaenoptera musculus Balaenoptera Sibbaldii is similar, with smaller fin on back; both make blasts about 18 feet. The blue whale Balaenoptera musculus in Southern seas has been killed up to 110 feet.
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Rhachianectes glaneus, Cope. California Gray whale Rhachianectes glaucus.. Length 41 feet. (After Scammon.)
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Large Hump-Back [sic] Whale, 83 Feet Long.
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California Gray whale Rhachianectes glaucus, Rhachianectes glaucus Cope.
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Megaptera versabilis, Cope. Pacific Humpback Whale.. Length, 48 feet. (After Scammon)
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Skeleton of Right Whale Showing Comparative Size of Man. A--Bones which represent legs.
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Baleneptere vorqual. Balaenoptera vorqual
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California Gray whale Rhachianectes glaucus, or Devil-Fish. Rhachianectes glaucus, Cope.
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Right Whale to Show Whalebone (1); Sperm Whale Showing Teeth (2).
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Balaena mysticetus, Linne. Bowhead Whale.. Length, 60 feet. (After Scammon)
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Balaenoptera Davidsoni, Cope. Little Piked Whale.. Length, 30 feet. (After Scammon.)
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Cutting-In a Right Whale. Upper jaw and bone being hoisted on board. Note man with spade on cutting-stage; blanket-piece back of bone and try-works from which smoke is rising..
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Head of Bowhead Whale, Showing Scalp, or upper jaw, and whale-bone hanging from it. It is just being hoisted aboard.
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Right Whale of the Pacific. Balaena japonica, Gray. (Eubalaena cullamach)
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Bowhead or Arctic Whale. (Balaena mysticetus)
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Jaws of Right Whale Showing Whalebone (A); Lower Jaw of Sperm Whale Showing Teeth (B).
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Bowhead or Arctic Whale. Balaena mysticetus, L.
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2012 University of California Museum of Paleontology
CalPhotos
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2012 University of California Museum of Paleontology
CalPhotos
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