WHALES AT PLAY
Somersaults in Ocean SCENE IN ATLANTIC New York, June 25. Seven schools of whales encountered about 170 miles east of the Nantucket Lightship entertained passengers and crew of the Cunarder Aquitania on a recent trip across the Atlantic from England to New York. The big mdmmals, which were headed north for cool water, ranged" in length from 30 to 35 feet, and there were eight or nine of them in each school. Several of the whales put ou an exhibition, leaping high out of the water and falling down again with great splashings. In one instance two of them were observed to swim circles around each other at great speed and then suddenly rise up into the air opposite each other, putting their heads together as if in the act of kissing before falling backward again Into the sea. Chief Officer Mott, of the Cunarder, who has uearlv 35 years’ of sailing experience to his credit, and is regarded in the North Atlantic trade as an authority on the habits of whales, said that never before had he seen whales turn somersaults on the surface of the ocean.
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Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 274, 15 August 1932, Page 7
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191WHALES AT PLAY Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 274, 15 August 1932, Page 7
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