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n. (plural of rorqual English)
Usage examples of "rorquals".
The rorquals included the largest, swiftest and un doubtedly the most intelligent of whales.
Consequently if, by exceptional good luck, a sailing ship managed to catch and kill one of the rorquals, the monster promptly sank, and that was that.
About 1860 they turned their hard blue eyes upon the rorquals and put their Viking minds to work.
Within ten years they had found the means to doom, not only the rorquals, but all surviving great whales in all the oceans of the earth.
In 1904 there were eighteen such factories on the shores^of Newfoundland alone, processing an average of twelve hundred whales, most of them rorquals, every year!
All rorquals have these slits, which in the Fin number about a hundred.
In 1964 he expanded the plant to handle whales and, using Norwegian catching ships and Norwegian crews, began going after the rorquals which had reappeared in the seas between Nova Scotia and southern Newfound land.
However, the use of super-sensitive hydrophones (designed to eavesdrop on enemy submarines) has recently resulted in the astonishing discovery that the rorquals are amongst the most "talkative" of living beings.
In the meantime, anybody with an open mind who listens to underwater recordings of the Humpback Whale, for in stance, will find it extraordinarily difficult to resist the con clusion that these rorquals can and do communicate with each other on levels of content and efficiency which we may have reason to envy.