Figure 40. — DetaQ of the head of a humpback whale harpooned off Japan. Note the knobs along; the top of the head and on the lower jaw, the rounded 

 projection near the tip of the lower jaw and the wide ventral grooves. The large mass of tissue to the left of the animal is its tongue . In the inset photo from a 

 Canadian whaUng station, note the baleen plates, less than 3 feet (0.9 m) long and dark oUve green to black in color. {Photos by Japanese Whales Research 

 Institute, courtesy of H. Omura; and J. G. Mead [inset]. ) 



Figure 41 . — A humpback whale on the deck of a whaUng station in western Canada. All of the species' most distinctive characteristics are evident in this 

 photograph: 11) the hump and the dorsal fin; (2) the knobs on the top of the snout; and (3) the long flipper, with numerous barnacles attached to its 

 leading edge. (Photo by G. C. Pike, courtesy of I. MacAskie.) 



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