Evening star., 1952-10-26
BY Ivan T. Sanderson

BY Ivan T. Sanderson
WITH ALL THE AGE-OLD and often idle chatter about
w who is the king of beasts everybody overlooks
of which are in the cham
pionshp class and a by themselves These
champs live in the and betide anything that falls off
the solid earth into their waery eemen-and this goes for
greatest of living 1O-foo kodiak bear
and would probably just as we'll apply to the 4ofoot
nosaurus of old
The largest and most powerful of these the blue whale
This fabulous creature length feet and
weigh much $50 1t previously thought that
whales Is feet weighed per foot of
length but years ago 89oot blue whale was
weighed precisely and the aggregate separate parts
such bubber bones meat blood tipped the
1862 Thus $50 tons for probably an
underestimate.
The strength of IS almost beyond our
conception modern 100-foot. twn-engned and twin
screwed steel whale chaser operating the
some years ago struck 8Ooot blue whale with
explosive hapoon which took firm hold the
of the animals back The eviahan Immediately made off
carried mile of The vessel then
put its powerful engines into speed
asten but the whale to the surface and off in the
general direction of Siberia And towed that huge vessel
with its engines running full for IL hours at
average speed of knots before being killed
Nevertheless there undsputed whale champ of the
sea which will tackle other single handed Unless this
champ gets socked squarey behind the earwhich only
about the of a pencil ncidentaly-with haymaker
from the giants TAIL it will surely kill the largest of them.
This creature is appropriately called killer whale.
The males grow to 80 feet in length and barrel
shaped and thus of huge rth volume and strength Their
jaws have cape armed with continuous
le OF equally spaced onch Snarp-e0ged cOnlcal teetn
In color they vvdly marked with curvng
black and white and they have exceptionally tall pointed
n halfway along their backs that may height of six
feet and even at the top like dogs They
swift and powerful swimmers, utterly fearless deliberately
aggressive voracious by far the largest and most
dangerous carnivorouS animals planet They live in
all oceans and but especially in cold waters
Killers travel groups to 40 and have habit Of
driving under oes much several feet thick If
they know anything alive top Many Arctic explorers
~hae seale thus lost their lives for the animals
smash the ice with their domed heads and tip the
men into the water They regularly hunt pengunS in this
manner in the Antarctic and also take kind OF seal that
may be caught mapping One narpooned While
choking 18th seal it had swallowed and
another contained "a penguns seals and 80 large fish
However they prefer warm -blooded animals and will
attack the largest bull Waus elephant seals the mighty great
white and baSkng sharks which have virtually mperVlouS
skins whale Three of them have been
literally to apart full whale itself vicious
tighter reputed the mighty blue nner
and right whales chivvy them until they open their
mouths when the killers rush in and tear out their vast
nabby tongues that they attack the biggest
whales and chunks of their anks chin tails and
hippers
In fact apart from parasites and disease nothing can
contend with the killer the He is undsputed champ
and Console
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