A Whale for the Killing
“We have never seen them in the act of making love. No man has ever witnessed the birth of one. We do not even know with any certainty how long the gestation period is; how often a female gives birth; how old she is at sexual maturity; or even how she manages to suckle her young under water.
Examination of foetuses taken from dead finners suggests that the young are born in early spring, perhaps in March or April. At any rate, this is presumed to be the case amongst finners who live in the N...orth Atlantic. Because late-term foetuses have only a very thin blubber layer, and therefore not much insulation, some biologists believe the young must be born in warm southern waters, perhaps in the mysterious region near the Sargasso Sea. Other cetologists are equally positive that, because of the quantity and extreme richness of the mother’s milk (it is ten times richer than that of a Jersey cow), baby fins can produce enough internal heat to enable them to survive even in far northern waters.MoreLess
Examination of foetuses taken from dead finners suggests that the young are born in early spring, perhaps in March or April. At any rate, this is presumed to be the case amongst finners who live in the N...orth Atlantic. Because late-term foetuses have only a very thin blubber layer, and therefore not much insulation, some biologists believe the young must be born in warm southern waters, perhaps in the mysterious region near the Sargasso Sea. Other cetologists are equally positive that, because of the quantity and extreme richness of the mother’s milk (it is ten times richer than that of a Jersey cow), baby fins can produce enough internal heat to enable them to survive even in far northern waters.MoreLess
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