PERFORMING WHALES
ATLANTIC PASSENGERS WITNESS TRANGE SCENE NEW YORK, July 25. i Seven schools of whales encounter1 ed about 170 miles east of the Nantuclcet Lightship entertained passengers and crew of the Cunarder Aquitania on a recent trip across the Atlantic from England to New Yorlc. The big mammals which were headed north for cool water, ranged in lengtli from 30 to 35 fe'et, and there were eight or nine of them in each school. Several of the whales put on an exhibition, leaping high out of the water and falling down again with great splashings. In one instance two of them were observed to swim circles around each. other at great speed and then suddenly rise up into the air opposite each other, putting their heads together as if in the act of kissing before falling backward again into the sea. Chief Offieer Mott, of the Cunarder, who has nearly 35 years' of sailing experience to his credit, a nd is regarded in the North Atlantic trade as an authority on the. habits of whales, said that never before had he seen whales turn somersaults on the surface of the ocean.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 304, 18 August 1932, Page 3
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