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I take a fresh inspiration. This air-sat-
urated water was poured at a high
temperature, which when it strikes
the cool outer atmosphere condenses
at once forming a column of steam
or spray. This is seen to a constantly
height+ Thus has another the animal
actually spouts water from its
blowhole or nostrile.
these water would air breathing animals
live in the cold water ice-filled water
of the Arctic ocean? Nature has
protected for them wisely by covering their
skin with a thick layer
of fat or 'blubber' which acting as a
non-conducting layer, prevents the
the absorption of the ocean's animal
heat by the water. On the right whales
while live at the edges the ice this
blubber is very thick while in the seas
which frequent warmer waters the blub-
better corresponds sufficiently thinner.
The whales of the world are sorted
into two great valuable groups viz,
those having teeth those without
teeth. The toothed whales (Plat}
of that 1st group of which the sperm
whale is an example have long
been hunted for the oil & valuable sperm