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Humpback Whale
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- Length
- 50 feet.
- Description
- Similar to the finback whales, but with the back strongly convex and the flippers very long and scalloped on the edges. Sooty-black above, white beneath.
- Range
- North Atlantic Ocean, represented elsewhere by closely allied species.
THE SPERM WHALES
Here belong two whales, one large and one small, but both recognized by their regularly toothed lower jaw, toothless upper jaw and high vertical forehead.