per foot, averaging 157; man's ratio averages about 250 grams 

 per foot.) 



In the literature of the time of Scammon, the scholars failed to 

 give us new information about the behavior of cetacea. There 

 seems to have been a distinctly ambivalent attitude towards these 

 animals which is continued today. This point of view can be 

 summarized as follows: the whale is a very large animal with a 

 brain larger than that of man. This brain is the result of the 

 huge growth of its body. All of this large brain is needed to 

 control a large body. Because these tasks are so demanding, 

 there is not enough brain substance left for a high degree of 

 intelligence to develop. Thus the large brain cannot give the 

 degree of intellectual capability that man has. 



As an example of man's attitudes to cetaceans, consider the 

 case of the U. S. Fisheries Bureau Economic Circular No. 38, 

 of November 6, 191 8, by Lewis Radcliffe, entitled "Whales and 

 Porpoises as Food." Roy Chapman Andrews is quoted as saying 

 that hump-backed whale meat is the best of the larger cetaceans 

 but that porpoise and dolphin meat is even better eating than 

 that of the larger whale. The composition of die whale meat is 

 given as 30% protein, 6% fat, and less than 2% ash. From a 

 hump-back whale one obtains six tons of meat, from a Sei Whale, 

 five tons, and from a Finback, eight tons. Directions are given 

 to remove the connective tissue between the blubber and the 

 muscle to avoid the oily taste. For those who are interested, the 

 paper includes twenty-two whale meat recipes and ten porpoise 

 meat recipes. 



It can well be imagined, if we ever do communicate with 

 whales, dolphins, or porpoises, the kind of reception that this 

 sort of literature will receive from the cetaceans. 



The limited point of view of the whales as "dumb beasts" 

 neglects the adaptations that have taken place in non-mam- 

 malian forms with very much smaller brains but with compara- 

 ble bulk of body. The 60-foot whale shark, a plankton eater, 



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