Piute Chieftain | 1917-01-18 | Page 7 | Whales

wh whales ales whales are able to attain such an enormous size because their bodies aro ar supported by the water in which they live A bird I 1 Is S it limited in to the weight which its ita wings can bear up in the air A land animal if it becomes too large cannot holo holl its body off the ground or readily move about and is doomed to certain destruction but a whale has to face none of these grobl problems leq and can grow without restraint because whales live in a supporting medium their young are of enormous size at birth in some instances the calf being almost half the length of its it mother I 1 once took a 25 foot baby which weighed about eight tons from an all 85 foot blue whale exchange