'.l'2 RELATION'S \V1T1I OTIIKI! .ANIMALS. 



t':ir :is Hie eye of the lookout could reach. Mr. Yrolik found in 

 t lie simnach of a Byperoodon about ten thousand mandible^ ol' 

 Loligo.* 



Tin 1 cephalopoda are essentially carnivorous; their nourish- 

 ment is derived from lisli, t he IH'IOTM! ions of which they follow. 

 and from Pteropod mollusca. Certain sedeniary >pecie- 

 crustaceans, nudibranchiate mollusks and bryo/oa. After their 

 exclusion, the youim; prey upon polyps. notably on -hose of the 

 family (ioro-onida-. so common on the Al^erine coast. and of 

 which. some perhaps furnish the material necessary for the >TO\\ : h 

 or solidification of the cuttle-bone. A little larger. they attack 

 witli avidity those elegant chaplets of pearls. :he rainbow-lined 

 ,.0-M-s of Kolis and Doris. -j- 



M'he chief art icle of food of the sperm whale is squid, of which 

 they vomit large quantities in their death aimny. Tap:. Pease 

 thinks that the whales take them by swimming with themouih 

 so wide open thai the lower jaw stands at nearly no-lit :in<rles 

 with the upper. Squid. he thinks, will irrasp ai the jaw as the 

 whale passes among them, and are cut in fragments by the sudden 

 closure of the jaws. He stonily maintains 'hai he has seen IV:ij-- 

 ments of s<iuid. where the wlndes had cut them in two. exposing 

 the cavity <>i' the body, which was as lar^e over as ihe head of 

 a forty -gallon cask. In one ca>e he saw ihe head of a s<piid 

 which he believes to have been MS lar^e as a suo'ar hpgshead.J 



It is the opinion of almost all whalemen, that the sperm whale 

 feeds wholh' on squid. < 1 :ij>t.. Daniel McKenzie. of New ledford. 

 says : "The smaller kind they eai is found near ihe surface, and 

 is from '2 to .'5 feet in K-n^ih; the larger kind, which prob- 

 ably have their haunts deep in the sea. musl be of immense si/e. 

 I have seen very lai'u'e junks Moating on the surface entirely 

 shapeless/ 1 ( 1 apt. Francis I'osi says: "Whales in theaizony of 

 death, frequently eject, from their stomach pieces as lai'^e as the 

 bulk of a barrel, and these in lai'^e qiwniiiies. Lar^e piece-, of 



in "Verb. K. Akad. Weten.," AnisttMxlani, i\, I'.', isiil. 

 Ti-ch'nis Ni;>(M- speaks <>!' s<|ui(ls dart iiiu,' into the air in such iminU'i - 

 sink the shi]s upon which tlicy fall, liy tlicii' wrin-ht. 



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