Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 151, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1917 — Whales. [ARTICLE]

Whales.

Whales are able to attain such an enormous size because their bodies are supported by the water in which they live. A bird is limited to the weight which its wings can bear up in the air. A land animal, if it becomes too large, cannot hold its body off the ground or readily move about, and is doomed to certain destruction. But a whale has to face none of these problems and can grow without restraint Because whales live in a supporting medium their young are of enormous size at birth, in some instances the Calf being almost half the length of its mother. I once took a 25-foot baby which weighed about eight tons from an 85-foot blue whale.—Exchange.