Balaena

Word BALAENA
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Hyphenation balaena
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After the brief, friendly chat that we had, coffee was passed around, the probabilities of the _Liberdade's_ voyage discussed, and the crew cautioned against the dangers of the _balaena_ (whale), which were numerous along the coast, and vicious at that season of the year, having their young to protect. ❋ Joshua Slocum (1877)

Few extinct species of balaena are known to belong to the miocene period besides the orycterocetus of Leidy. ❋ Unknown (1858)

Page 204 being simple, are all referred to the genus balaena. ❋ Unknown (1858)

As we happened to be only sixty yards from one of these animals, we perceived a number of longitudinal furrows, or wrinkles, on its belly, from whence we concluded it was the species by Linnaeus named _balaena boops_. ❋ Robert Kerr (1784)

26 [Ear bone of whale] The first of the bones (Fig. 26) which I propose to describe is the largest, and resembles in form the same bone belonging to the right whale, (the balaena mysticetus.) In this specimen the thick involuted part is thickest at its extreme posterior end, and gradually diminishes to within three fourths of an inch of the flatish, expanded or eustachian part of the tube. ❋ Unknown (1858)

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