Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1900 — Weight of Whales. [ARTICLE]

Weight of Whales.

Haye you any idea of the size of the common Greenland whale? Nillson, the zoologist, estimates the full-grown animal to average 100 tons, or 224,000 pounds. Thdt is to say, a whale weighs as much as about eighty elephants or 400 bears. Of course soibe run larger than this. There are tales among old whalers of w’hales 110 feet long and weighing at least 150 tons. But such are not to be seen in these days. A seventy-foot whale is a big one now. Still it may give some iflea of what monsters are occasionally killed when we mention that a ton of oil has been extracted from the tongue alone of a single whale.