rorqual

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Rorqual whales capture much of their food by an extraordinary procedure known as lunge feeding.

From Nature • May 23, 2012

Captain Scoresby indeed mentions a Rorqual no less than 120 feet in length, but this is probably too great an estimate.

From The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In by Lubbock, John, Sir

Blyth appears to consider that the only whale met with nowadays in the Indian Sea north of the line is a great Rorqual or Balaenoptera, to which he gives the specific name of Indica.

From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Yule, Henry

The lesser Rorqual of the North     48 46 46 Great Rorqual of the Cape 52         3.

From Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology by Various

Organs of Respiration.—The external nostrils were double; and the cavities of the nostrils provided with the remarkable cartilages and muscular apparatus I discovered and described in the anatomy of the Great Rorqual.

From Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology by Various