PLATE III 



Stomach of a small 72 foot male blue whale, cut open to show the 

 enormous quantity of krill that can be swallowed, even by a young 

 animal. The handle of the flensing knife is 5 ft. long, and there may 

 be between i and 2 tons of krill present. The two fish, swallowed 

 fortuitously, each about 1 2 in. long, are evidently Notolepis coatsi, itself 

 a prodigious krill-eater. This whale was killed in the southern, krill- 

 rich, East Wind zone on 28 December 1947, in 62° 39' S, 93° 01' E. 



{Photo: Robert Clarke) 



