SCHOOL OF WHALES SPOTTED IN NAMIBIA
BY ABDULMUMINI ADEKU.
According to the Oxford Encyclopaedia,the West Coast of
Southern Africa is a nursery for young whales .
The News office Desk
of the E.N.M.Paedia Express Multimedia Group of Lagos,Nigeria now hears that
they Whales actually communicate to each other in its school through sounds and
this is called echo location by science.
The Encyclopaedia pointed out that there were two main
groups of Whales and they were the toothed whales and the whale bones whales.
This reporter gathers that the tooothed whales have teeths
in their respective jaws while the whale bone whales have a row on long horny
plates thus making it to be called Whale bone.
The longest of the Whale bone whales is the Blue Whale and
it is the largest mammal in the world that is known to all of mankind.
It was noted that the length of the Blue Whale male was 25 to 27 meters and that of the
female is estimated to be about 120 tonnes.
The tongue of a large blue Whale weighs four tonnes which is
about the weight of an elephant .in the time past dead whales have being
spotted around the Nigerian shores at specifically the Lagos Bar
Beach and it is now felt that perhaps these dead whales were swept to Nigeria
from the Namibian coast by strong waves and ocean currents.
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