Figure 36.— Humpback whales fall back into the water after breaching. Note the long flippers, distinctly scalloped on the leading edge. In the 

 animal on the top, note also the knobs on the head, visible in profile, the cluster of barnacles located on the rounded projection below the tip of the lower 

 jaw, and the throat grooves. iPkotoi off Baja CaHforma by K. C. Balcomb [top] and off Bermuda by C. Leventon [bottom].) 



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