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The following post is authored by Catharine Chen as part of the Sizing Ocean Giants project. This post originally occurred on the Story of Size .
Adapted from Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling.
Long, long ago, there was a Blue Whale ( Balaenoptera musculus ) who ate everything in the ocean but a small fish. Fearing for his life, the fish hid behind the Whale’s ear and said, “Noble and generous Cetacean, have you ever tasted Man?”
“No,” said the Whale. “What is it like?”
Wait, what ? Jane Austen taught me that folks in the 19 th century all have elegant and dignified speech, but nubbly sounds like gibberish. A word a two year-old would babble out. Alright, fine, the dictionary says it means “coarse or knobbly in nature,” but I , as a member of H. sapiens , am for one certainly not nubbly. For real nubbles, just check out our lovely blue whale protagonist:
Ick. Now that’s knobbly and just generally kind of gross looking. Technically those lumps are skin lesions, or as we more commonly refer to them, sunburns. Poor fellows; it’s pretty hard to protect yourself from the sun when you’re hanging out on the surface of what’s essentially a really huge pool. However, it turns out that blue whales have come up with a pretty good strategy for dealing with that problem.
The scientists took photos of the whales’ epidermises, and calculated the total area of each of the grey dots, or the melanin. They found that when the whales migrated south to the sunny Gulf of California, their melanin amounts increased, and when the whales moved back to their northern feeding grounds, the melanin correspondingly decreased. The researchers also found that the higher the melanin amounts, the less the whale’s mitochondrial DNA was damaged, and the fewer skin lesions it had. And what does a melanin increase lead to? Darker skin! Essentially, blue whales protect themselves from UV’s harmful effects by getting tan, just like us. And Snooki.
Besides opening the door to endless bad “beached whale” puns, this finding not only proves that blue whales have a way to protect themselves from UV damage, but also raises the questions of what levels and intensities of UV could overcome this defense and become the lesions we saw, and when those lesions would in turn lead to cancer. With increasing UV hitting our whales – and us! – should we be concerned?
Tumors and nubbles aside, let’s return to our tale:
The fish gave the Whale directions to find a Man: “Swim to 50N and 40W, where you will find a man sitting on a raft in the middle of the sea.”
The Whale hurried to the point, where a man named Henry sat upon the water, wearing a new pair of blue breeches, suspenders and holding a knife. The Whale opened his mouth as wide as he could and swallowed Henry whole.
But Henry was clever: he began jumping and leaping and dancing and hitting the Whale from the inside. The Whale groaned and moaned and hiccuped . (Despite being titled “relaxing,” that sounds an awful lot like hiccupping to me.)
“No!” said Henry. “I’ll come out if you take me to the shore.”
So the Whale swam as quickly as he could. He rushed onto the shore of Henry’s home, and opened his mouth. However, as the Man left, the Whale was very rudely surprised indeed.
Henry had cut his raft into little pieces, tied them into a grate with his suspenders, and as he walked out, jammed the contraption into the Whale’s throat!
From that day on, the Whale has had a blocked throat, and wants to eat people – but can’t!
Cute. Too bad the blue whale’s huge plates of baleen didn’t really come from an encounter with a man, but they are pretty cool in their own right. Blue whales are actually a type of mysticetes, or “moustached whale,” who all use baleen to filter their food from the water.
The real baleen is far more sturdy than raft parts tied together by suspenders. It is made up of keratin, the same material as our fingernails, and looks something like this:
Blue whales use their baleen to feed on krill, and employ an extremely energy intensive method. They dive deep beneath the water, quickly lunge upwards with their mouths open, and then push the water in their mouths through the baleen, leaving only the krill behind. By performing this behavior in areas with extremely high concentrations of krill, this lunge-feeding pattern becomes sustainable for the whales. So Henry aside, we really wouldn’t have to worry anyway: if blue whales lunge-fed just for one measly human, the payoff would just not be worth it.
So, as Kipling said, “that is the end of that tale.”
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Kipling, Rudyard. Just So Stories .
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In the sea, once upon a time, O my Best Beloved, there was a Whale, and he ate fishes. He ate the starfish and the garfish, and the crab and the dab, and the plaice and the dace, and the skate and his mate, and the mackereel and the pickereel, and the really truly twirly-whirly eel. All the fishes he could find in all the sea he ate with his mouth—so! Till at last there was only one small fish left in all the sea, and he was a small ‘Stute Fish, and he swam a little behind the Whale’s right ear, so as to be out of harm’s way. Then the Whale stood up on his tail and said, ‘I’m hungry.’ And the small ‘Stute Fish said in a small ‘stute voice, ‘Noble and generous Cetacean, have you ever tasted Man?’
‘No,’ said the Whale. ‘What is it like?’
‘Nice,’ said the small ‘Stute Fish. ‘Nice but nubbly.’
‘Then fetch me some,’ said the Whale, and he made the sea froth up with his tail.
‘One at a time is enough,’ said the ‘Stute Fish. ‘If you swim to latitude Fifty North, longitude Forty West (that is magic), you will find, sitting on a raft, in the middle of the sea, with nothing on but a pair of blue canvas breeches, a pair of suspenders (you must not forget the suspenders, Best Beloved), and a jack- knife, one ship-wrecked Mariner, who, it is only fair to tell you, is a man of infinite-resource-and-sagacity.’
So the Whale swam and swam to latitude Fifty North, longitude Forty West, as fast as he could swim, and on a raft, in the middle of the sea, with nothing to wear except a pair of blue canvas breeches, a pair of suspenders (you must particularly remember the suspenders, Best Beloved), and a jack-knife, he found one single, solitary shipwrecked Mariner, trailing his toes in the water. (He had his mummy’s leave to paddle, or else he would never have done it, because he was a man of infinite- resource-and-sagacity.)
Then the Whale opened his mouth back and back and back till it nearly touched his tail, and he swallowed the shipwrecked Mariner, and the raft he was sitting on, and his blue canvas breeches, and the suspenders (which you must not forget), and the jack-knife—He swallowed them all down into his warm, dark, inside cup-boards, and then he smacked his lips—so, and turned round three times on his tail.
But as soon as the Mariner, who was a man of infinite-resource- and-sagacity, found himself truly inside the Whale’s warm, dark, inside cup-boards, he stumped and he jumped and he thumped and he bumped, and he pranced and he danced, and he banged and he clanged, and he hit and he bit, and he leaped and he creeped, and he prowled and he howled, and he hopped and he dropped, and he cried and he sighed, and he crawled and he bawled, and he stepped and he lepped, and he danced hornpipes where he shouldn’t, and the Whale felt most unhappy indeed. (Have you forgotten the suspenders?)
So he said to the ‘Stute Fish, ‘This man is very nubbly, and besides he is making me hiccough. What shall I do?’
‘Tell him to come out,’ said the ‘Stute Fish.
So the Whale called down his own throat to the shipwrecked Mariner, ‘Come out and behave yourself. I’ve got the hiccoughs.’
‘Nay, nay!’ said the Mariner. ‘Not so, but far otherwise. Take me to my natal-shore and the white-cliffs-of-Albion, and I’ll think about it.’ And he began to dance more than ever.
‘You had better take him home,’ said the ‘Stute Fish to the Whale. ‘I ought to have warned you that he is a man of infinite-resource-and-sagacity.’
So the Whale swam and swam and swam, with both flippers and his tail, as hard as he could for the hiccoughs; and at last he saw the Mariner’s natal-shore and the white-cliffs-of-Albion, and he rushed half-way up the beach, and opened his mouth wide and wide and wide, and said, ‘Change here for Winchester, Ashuelot, Nashua, Keene, and stations on the Fitchburg Road;’ and just as he said ‘Fitch’ the Mariner walked out of his mouth. But while the Whale had been swimming, the Mariner, who was indeed a person of infinite-resource-and-sagacity, had taken his jack-knife and cut up the raft into a little square grating all running criss- cross, and he had tied it firm with his suspenders (now , you know why you were not to forget the suspenders!), and he dragged that grating good and tight into the Whale’s throat, and there it stuck! Then he recited the following Sloka , which, as you have not heard it, I will now proceed to relate—
By means of a grating
I have stopped your ating.
For the Mariner he was also an Hi-ber-ni-an. And he stepped out on the shingle, and went home to his mother, who had given him leave to trail his toes in the water; and he married and lived happily ever afterward. So did the Whale. But from that day on, the grating in his throat, which he could neither cough up nor swallow down, prevented him eating anything except very, very small fish; and that is the reason why whales nowadays never eat men or boys or little girls.
The small ‘Stute Fish went and hid himself in the mud under the Door-sills of the Equator. He was afraid that the Whale might be angry with him.
The Sailor took the jack-knife home. He was wearing the blue canvas breeches when he walked out on the shingle. The suspenders were left behind, you see, to tie the grating with; and that is the end of that tale.
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Rudyard Kipling (1865 – 1936), the English author. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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Home › Short Story › Analysis of Rudyard Kipling’s Stories
Many of Rudyard Kipling ’s earliest short stories are set in the India of his early childhood years in Bombay and his newspaper days in Lahore. The intervening years at school in England had perhaps increased his sensitivity to the exotic Indian locale and British imperial presence. Kipling was a voracious reader of English, French, and American writers, trained by his newspaper experience in the virtues of conciseness and detail. His art arrived almost fully revealed in his earliest works. Kipling focused, however, not on the glories and conquests of empire but on the lives—work and activities, passions and emotions—of ordinary people responding to what were often extraordinary or inexplicable events. Love, especially doomed love, terror and the macabre, revenge and its consequences—these were the elements upon which his stories turned, even later when the settings were often English. His fame or notoriety was almost instantaneous, in part because of the locations and subject matter of the stories, because of his use of dialect in re-creating the voices of his nonestablishment characters, and because Kipling’s early writings appeared at a time when England and Western civilization as a whole were caught up in imperial dreams and rivalries.
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