The rise of these two organs has been an important factor 

 in the development of man as the master animal. 



The Energy Pattern of the Master Animal 



A master animal must be able to survive in the tropics, 

 the temperate zone, the Arctic zone, in the desert, in the 

 marsh, on the plains, or in the mountains. 



Because of their breathing the rich oxygen of the air and 

 their higher speed of oxidation, the warm-blooded animals 

 of the sea, namely, the Cetacea, are in the sea something 

 of what man is on the land. No fish is a match for the whale, 

 and no land animal is a match for man. 



If a master animal must be able to compete successfully 

 with all other animals, then the vast hordes of smaller fish 

 that are eaten by larger fish could not be master animals. 

 The shark family would be disqualified as a master animal 

 by the fact that the killer whale and the porpoise are their 

 masters. What of the formidable killer whale? 



Just as the lion and the tiger failed on the land to appear 

 in large numbers and therefore to qualify as master animals, 

 so the killer whale has failed to appear in great numbers. 

 The salmon, the cod, the herring, although they are 

 numerous, cannot qualify as master animals, for man, as 

 well as many animals in the sea, takes them in vast quanti- 

 ties. This eliminates every animal in the sea, up to the great 

 whales. The most perfect example of adaptation is that of 

 the mammals that reentered the sea. According to Karl 

 Brandt 1 blue whale calves measure twenty-three feet or 

 more at birth. They continue to grow one to two inches a 

 day, until at the end of the nursing period the young blue 

 whale may have attained a length of some fifty-four feet. 

 Brandt states that not only while being suckled does the 

 blue whale calf gain 220 pounds a day, but from the time of 



1 BRANDT, KARL, "Whale Oil: An Economic Analysis," Food Research Insti- 

 tute, Stanford University Press, 1940. 



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