The =baleen of whales= also belongs to the epidermal exoskeleton.
Baleen and Rhinoceros horn likewise agree in that the fibres are bound together by less hardened epithelial cells, which readily wear away and allow the harder fibres to fray out.
I wish only to show that this is not incredible, and that the immense plates of baleen in the Greenland whale might have been developed from such lamellae by finely graduated steps, each of service to its possessor.
In answer, it may be asked, why should not the early progenitors of the whales with baleen have possessed a mouth constructed something like the lamellated beak of a duck?
In these several respects they resemble the plates of baleen in the mouth of a whale.
The baleen consists of a row, on each side of the upper jaw, of about 300 plates or laminae, which stand close together transversely to the longer axis of the mouth.
This animal is from forty to sixty feet long when fully grown, and the baleen plates are often ten or even twelve feet in length, while there are nearly four hundred of them on each side of the upper jaw.
They have no teeth, but, instead, horny plates of baleen or whalebone, which strain from the water the small animals upon which the whale feeds.
And is the baleenall they kill the whales for, papa?
The cachelot has no baleen but it furnishes spermaceti.
When we had got thebaleen inboard, however, the more disagreeable work of "flensing" began.
Unless the Circumpolar Bowhead is to become extinct within a decade, the thinking world should strengthen the hands of the Canadian authorities in an effort to put a close season for four or five years on the great Arctic Baleen Whale.
Whalebone whips are made from single pieces of baleen seven or eight feet long.
Shredded into fine filaments, baleen is now woven in with the other fibres in the manufacture of the finest French silks, imparting resilience and elasticity to the rich material.
Each of these floating tanks of baleen and oil nets his lucky captor from thirteen thousand dollars upward?
There was just time to run to the rescue of the baleen whales.
Well versed in the theory of classification, he was poorly versed in its practical application, and I doubt that he could tell a sperm whale from a baleen whale!
The Abraham Lincoln would change course and race after the animal sighted, only to find an ordinary baleen whale or a common sperm whale that soon disappeared amid a chorus of curses!
It doesn't have a forked tail like baleen whales or sperm whales, and its fins look like sawed-off limbs.
Near eleven o'clock in the morning, while on the surface of the ocean, the Nautilus fell in with a herd of baleen whales.
I believe in the existence of a mammal with a powerful constitution, belonging to the vertebrate branch like baleen whales, sperm whales, or dolphins, and armed with a tusk made of horn that has tremendous penetrating power.
I can easily believe it, Ned, just as I can believe that certain baleen whales equal 100 elephants in bulk.
The battle between sperm whales and baleen whales had already begun when the Nautilus arrived.
Some of these teeth have been found buried in the bodies of baleen whales, which the narwhale attacks with invariable success.
One day we were chased by the longboats of a whaling vessel, which undoubtedly viewed us as some enormous baleen whale of great value.
The order Cetacea consists of three families, baleen whales, sperm whales, dolphins, and it's in this last group that narwhales are placed.
However, they say that in 1820, right in these southern seas, a baleen whale rushed at the Essex and pushed it backward at a speed of four meters per second.
It had seen the baleen whales and was preparing to attack.
It was the Canadian-- on this topic he was never mistaken--who sighted a baleen whale on the eastern horizon.
But one of them, the captain of the Monroe, knew that Ned Land had shipped aboard the Abraham Lincoln and asked his help in hunting a baleen whale that was in sight.
Footnote: The baleen or whale-bone I have described forms a most valuable portion of the produce afforded by the black whale, although not so valuable as the oil extracted from the same animal.
Yet we have seen that by his baleen it is impossible correctly to classify the Greenland whale.
It was he who discovered the vestigial teeth of the baleen whale and those of embryo birds, and the bearing of this on the doctrine of descent must have been obvious to him.
In the baleen whales, which have been supposed to be completely deprived of teeth, M.
The baleen whales are not found in the intertropical seas.
The baleen is then cut out, and the carcase abandoned to the sharks, killer whales, and sea birds.
According to Scammon three or four of them do not hesitate to grapple with the largest baleen whale; and, as described by Dr.
Many of them grow to enormous size, far exceeding any of the baleen whales.
The ulna and radius in the rorquals are also comparatively longer than in the baleen whales.
In this respect it differs much from the baleen whales, which have a narrow gullet.
The whalebone or baleen plates, which at one time formed the most valuable article of the Arctic fishery, may here be regarded as of secondary importance.
The baleen plates of the southern right whale reach only a length of about 7 ft.
The inset photo shows the right upper jaw of a fin whale with the baleen intact.
Occasionally barnacles will be found on teeth or baleen plates.
Two of these, the bowhead or Greenland whale, and its more widely distributed close relative the right whale, are baleen whales.
Note the fringes of baleen suspended from the roof of the mouth.
The data form located at the end of this guide, usable on both baleen and toothed whales, includes all the measurements routinely taken by cetologists plus a few new ones the authors consider important.
In this partly flensed fin whale, at Blanford, Nova Scotia, note the white lower lip and the white baleen in the right front.
The baleen and the right lower lip of Bryde's whales are dark gray.
Single blowhole; teeth present (sometimes concealed beneath the gums); nobaleen plates in upper jaw.
By the characters of the nostrils the Toothed Whales can be distinguished from the Baleen Whales; in the latter the orifice is double, in the former single.
The bones of the cranium are not so arched as in the Right Whales, and as a consequence the plates of baleen are shorter.
The number of baleen plates is about 330 on each side of the jaw.
This is precisely how the plates of baleen are disposed in the mouth of a Whale.
Section of upper jaw, withbaleen plates, of Balaenoptera.
The land animals, we may also be sure, have the rudiments of baleen in their organization.
So, also, the baleen of the whale and the teeth of the land mammalia are different organs.
From having the baleen in his mouth, the Fin-Back is sometimes included with the right whale, among a theoretic species denominated Whalebone whales, that is, whales with baleen.
In the Greenland Whale this whalebone hanging from the center of the jaw is sometimes twelve feet in length, and as there are from two hundred and fifty to four hundred in number, the great value of the baleen is readily seen.
These are known as the baleen plates and form the whalebone of commerce.
The mouth then closes, but the water is permitted to flow out, the baleen acting like a sieve, retaining the food supply within and allowing the water to ooze away.
These baleen plates are not modifications of teeth, as might at first be supposed, but rather of the transverse gum-ridges found on the roof of the mouth of many mammals, and conspicuous in the horse.
The baleen whales have no teeth, and no use for them.
If the most favourable variations have to contend with such difficulties, what must be thought as to the chance of preservation of the slightly displaced eye in a sole or of the incipient development of baleen in a whale?
Now it is obvious, that if this baleen had once attained such a size and development as to be at all useful, then its preservation and augmentation within serviceable limits, would be promoted by "Natural Selection" alone.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "baleen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: battledore; elastic; gum; racket; rubber; spring; springboard
