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The only other rorqual to do so—the blue whale—raises the flukes slightly or not at all.
WHALES, DOLPHINS, AND PORPOISES OF THE WESTERN NORTH ATLANTICSTEPHEN LEATHERWOODHe came out to meet me upon the back of a mighty 'rorqual,' and a body-guard of four hundred picked narwhals swam before him.
TALES OF THE CHESAPEAKEGEORGE ALFRED TOWNSENDThere is another kind of whale, called the lesser rorqual, which only grows to the length of about twenty-five or thirty feet.
THE ANIMAL WORLD, A BOOK OF NATURAL HISTORYTHEODORE WOODThe rorqual feeds partly upon the small creatures which it captures by means of its whalebone strainer, and partly upon fishes.
THE ANIMAL WORLD, A BOOK OF NATURAL HISTORYTHEODORE WOODThat of the extinct Halitherium recalls the pelvis of the Rorqual.
THE CAMBRIDGE NATURAL HISTORY, VOL X., MAMMALIAFRANK EVERS BEDDARDWhat is temporary in the Rorqual appears to be permanent in the Sotalia.
THE CAMBRIDGE NATURAL HISTORY, VOL X., MAMMALIAFRANK EVERS BEDDARDIt has, however, the general outline of a Rorqual, with a relatively small head.
THE CAMBRIDGE NATURAL HISTORY, VOL X., MAMMALIAFRANK EVERS BEDDARDThere is a falcate dorsal fin; but the head in outline is not Rorqual-like in spite of its similar proportions.
THE CAMBRIDGE NATURAL HISTORY, VOL X., MAMMALIAFRANK EVERS BEDDARDCaptain Scoresby indeed mentions a Rorqual no less than 120 feet in length, but this is probably too great an estimate.
THE BEAUTIES OF NATURESIR JOHN LUBBOCKIt was a large rorqual, and he at once sent word by a messenger to Flosi in Vik and to the nearest farms.
GRETTIR THE STRONGUNKNOWNWORDS RELATED TO RORQUAL
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