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Figure33. — Three views of blowing humpback whales. The blow of this species is usually less than 10 feet (3.1 m) tall, wider than it is high, and has been 

 described as balloon-shaped. In the photo on the top, the wind has ab-eady begun to distort the blow. In the photo on the bottom, two separate columns are 

 visible. All baleen whales have a bipartite blowhole, and if an observer is directly behind or in front of either the right whale or the humpback whale under 

 ideal wind conditions, the blows of these two species may appear as two distinct spouts. {Photos from West Indies by H. E. Winn [top and middle] and 

 from off St. Augustine, Fla. by D. K. Caldwell [bottom].) 



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