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The Pulmonary Circulation of the Whale

Nature volume 121, pages 905–906 (1928)Cite this article

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WHALES are remarkable not only for the time they remain under water, but also for the depth to which they descend. In my letter on the depth to which they descend (NATURE, Aug. 20, 1927, p. 263), I gave reasons for believing that the Greenland whale descends to the depth of a mile. The ability to reach that depth implies on the part of the whale the possession of certain attributes, namely:

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GRAY, R. The Pulmonary Circulation of the Whale. Nature 121, 905–906 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/121905a0

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