Cousteau's Whales
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the whale is the most astonishing animal the Earth has ever known. It does not merely inspire superlatives. It is a living superlative. Some whales are much larger than the gigantic dinosaurs of the Mesozoic. It would take 25 elephants or 2000 human beings to equal the weight of a single blue whale. Its tongue alone weighs as much as an elephant. The blue whale is as long as four buses placed end to end. Its skeleton weighs 18 tons. It's blubber 30. It's meat 44. When it blows at the ocean surface, the spout looks for all the world like a new crowd in the sky.