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Ben Salter

Ben Salter club

Posted: 04 Sep 2009

Taken: 04 Sep 2009

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whale •
coast •
Wales •
Barry •
Vale of Glamorgan •
baleen •
Minkie •

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Parts of W(h)ales

Parts of W(h)ales
Remains of the Minkie Whale recently washed up at Barry. This is part of the whales feeding system. These whales do not have teeth, but instead have rows of baleen plates in the upper jaw – flat, flexible plates with frayed edges, arranged in two parallel rows, looking like combs of thick hair.
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This is interesting. The plates are *that* wide at the base! I always wondered why they are called like that.
10 years ago.

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