WHALE HUNTING WITH GUN AND CAMERA 



ments of the whales are very largely determined by 

 their position and abundance. 



The feeding operations are most interesting to 

 watch, and if the shrimps happen to be but a short 

 distance under water, as often happens during the 



The tongue of a humpback whale, which has been forced out of 

 the animal's mouth by air pumped into the body to keep it 

 afloat. 



morning and evening or just before a storm, they can 

 be easily seen. The whale starts forward at good 

 speed, then opens its mouth and takes in a great quan- 

 tity of water containing numbers of shrimp, turns 

 on its side and brings the ponderous lower jaw up- 

 ward, closing the mouth. The great soft tongue, fill- 



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