B. glaucus Almost floats B. glaucus is a very easy whale to raise the surface since it will almost float of its own accord; (A. offering & rubbing) Baleen plates as apart The distance between baleen plates varied in different whales from 10 mil to 3 mil. Bristles are very coarse strips. Teeth Rough mouth Taste of male 35' long was 27" long The numerous membranes into any open mouth is usually white, but sometimes very light pink. Cyanus Cyanus infest the tips & posterior edges of the flukes, flippers, the anus, & genitalia, & particularly the blowhole. There are generally many patches of these parasites on its nostrums and in two or three spots just behind the blowhole on top of its head. Any wound is usually attacked by them at once. Capt. Johnson says he has never seen any evidences of the reputed evil disposition of the gray whale. He say they are very timid and will run even from a fishing boat.