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Show Appetite of the Whale. A whale's appetite Is plionomcnal. His chief diet consists of Jellyfish. He has simply to open his mouth and paddlo along leisurely In order to tako In JolIyfiBh by tho wagon load." Such Is the method adopted by tho whale-bono whale-bono whale. Tho sperm whalo, on tho contrary, captures hugo squids weighing often several tons. LIko his brother, tho whalobono whalo, he must bo constantly ou tho lookout for food; othcrwlso ho would starvo. As many as fourteen seals have been takon from a thirty-foot "killer." Other fUlics of onormous appetites aro not uncommon. The bluoflsh, for ex-amplo, ex-amplo, thrives on sardines and other small fish. Assuming that one bluoflsh bluo-flsh cnts ten small fish a day, It has been figured that It requires 10,000 million sarlines to fcod tho 1,000 million mil-lion blueflsh on our coasts cvory summon sum-mon Most curious of all oators Is the hydra a strango crcaturo that can bo turned Insldo out without Impairing Im-pairing its appetite or Its power to eat. |
