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WHALES 



Porpoise 



Bottlenose 



about 4\fl 



about 1 1\ ft 



Common Dolphin 



Beaked Dolphin 



about yfl 



about 8 ft 



Whitesided Dolphin 



about 8 ft 



Risso's Dolphin 



about 10 ft 



Figure i8. Some North Atlantic Dolphins. {Slijper, 1954.) 



dolphins for their meat also. Off the Black Sea, porpoises are caught 

 mainly with nets, and at the beginning of this century Odessa had a 

 full-fledged oil factory. In Holland, porpoises are not usually considered 

 fit for human consumption, though many people ate and even liked them 

 during the war years. In Belgium and France, porpoise meat is still sold 

 regularly, and in previous centuries the same thing happened in Holland, 

 for the Great Ordinance for the Amsterdam Fish Market of 1569 lays down a fee 

 of one penny for the killing of a porpoise, a seal, or a tunny. On some South 

 Pacific islands the natives hunt and eat the Finless Black Porpoise 

 (Fig. 187). Here, the witchdoctor withdraws to his sanctuary for half a day 

 and uses magic to lure the animals close to the coast. The men then put 

 to sea, surround the animals, which have meanwhile responded to the 

 spell, and drive them ashore by clapping their hands and making other 

 noises. 



Dolphins are caught in a similar, if less magical way, in other parts of 

 the world also. Thus Russians, Rumanians, Bulgarians, and Turks have 



