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Title: The American natural history : a foundation of useful knowledge of the higher animals of North America
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Hornaday, William Temple, 1854-1937
Subjects: Natural history -- North America
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
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tlantic coast, is a jet-black creature, blunt-headed, heavy in action, a veritablepig of the sea. It loves to roll about in the breakers, and loaflazily in harbors and sheltered bays and at river mouths. Asbefore stated of porpoises generally, this animal does not leapfrom the water, in sheer enjoyment of a life on the oceanwave, but heaves itself to the surface just high enough tobring its blow-hole out of the water, gives a loud puff orsnuff, and then rolls heavily below. This porpoise is the species most frequently seen bysummer visitors on the Atlantic coast, and in various locali-ties it is variously named. It is known as the HerringHog, Snuffling Pig, Puffer and Snuffer. Its lengthseldom exceeds 4 feet 6 inches. It feeds upon fish, particu-larly on species like the herring and menhaden, which runin schools, and is said to be very destructive. Its flesh isvery dark, its blood is almost black, and on the dissectingtable it reeks of oil. ^ Del-phinus derphis. ^ Pho-caena com-munis.
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THE NARWHAL 157 One of the strangest of all cetaceans is the Narwhal/ acreature 16 feet long, mottled black and gray, with a blunt-ended head, no back fin, and with a very long, straight tuskof ivory projecting straight forward from its head. Thisivory tusk, which is from 6 to 8 feet long, is twisted through-out its length, from left to right, and is developed only inthe male. The Narwhals teeth, aside from a few that are merelyrudimentary, are reduced to a single pair, lying horizontallyin the upper jaw. In the female they remain permanentlyconcealed. In the male the right tooth usually remains simi-larly concealed, but the left is enormously developed into thetusk just mentioned. Having no other teeth, the creatureis obliged to feed upon squids, jelly-fish generally, and smallfishes that can be swallowed whole. It is found in the polarwaters of the North Atlantic, and the Arctic Ocean northof the Old World, but is now rare in accessible waters. WhenNansen and Johansen were retreatin

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