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Narwhal

Identifier: allaboutanimalsf00newy (find matches)
Title: All about animals. Facts, stories and anecdotes
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Animals
Publisher: New York, McLoughlin bros
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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RORQUAL WHALE. The Rorqual is the giant among the whales, for it is larger than eitherthe sperm or Greenland whale. It is seldom found far from the Arctic regions.As it is not a valuable whale, it is not hunted. The rorqual will go out ofits way to attack man, and its onslaught is so terrific that it will dash a boat topieces almost before its occupants are aware that their enemy is nearby. THE NARWHAL.
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The Narwhal, or Sea Unicorn, as it is sometimes called, gets its namefrom the extraordinary ivory horn which springs from the middle of its fore-head. It is a large animal, growing as long as thirty feet, and is found chieflynear the Arctic circle. It seems to be agreed that the narwhal uses this hornto fight with its fellows and not for spearing the fish upon which it feeds, aswas at first believed. Many travellers report having seen shoals of these ani-mals playing together, crossing horns like men fencing. The ivory of thenarwhals horn is of a very fine character. It retains its pure whitenessafter the elephants ivory has turned yellow. The hardness of the ivory iswell illustrated by the fact that a narwhal drove its horn through the ten-inch oak keel of a schooner. The horn snapped off and was found embeddedin the wood when the ship was dry-docked. It has been asserted that the narwhals will mob the Greenland whale byswimming on each side of it and beneath it, thus preventing it f

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