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Figure 45.-1116 unusually shaped head and the broad lower jaw, colored by a broad white vest, are evident in the swimming bowhead whale (left) and in 

 both members of the copulating pair (right). Also evident on the animal to the far left is the "string of black beads" which is sometimes found in the white 

 region. {Pkotot by J. Lentfer.) 



Figure 46. — A harpooned bowhead whale (this one from the Alaskan population). Note the high arching upper jaw of the species. Bowhead whales have 

 up to at least 360 plates per side, far more than the black right whale. The longest plates, located near the middle of each jaw, are reported to reach 

 12 feet (3.7 ml, or more, in length. {Photo by D. R. Patten.) 



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