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Calling itself the Cetacean Society, the new organization held its introductory meeting last night. Group organizer Paul J. Psychas '86, a longtime environmental lobbyist, said the society will initially focus on saving the right whale, which has an important feeding and breeding ground off Cape...
...part of the brain thought to be responsible for intelligence and sense perception, is well-developed in the whale and resembles man's cortex in several ways. (For more information on this subject see Mind in the Waters, ed. by Joan McIntyre.) The size and complexity of the Cetacean's brain, though not yet undeniably linked to an ability to reason and feel, raises tantalizing questions. Can whales live? Do they have an oral history? Are they happier than the acquisitive human being? Will we ever be able to communicate verbally with the bowhead? Have they ever read Camus...
...stuffed animals smell one way or another," Barbara L. Schevill, curator of Mammals, reported yesterday. According to Miss Schevill, the four-foot cetacean was removed from the exhibition rooms when the sea-blue paint that covered it began...
...vindicate the story of Jonah and the whale, Chicago's Pharmacology Professor Eugene Maximilian Karl Ceiling crawled through the gullet of a dead cetacean to prove it could be done. "It was a pretty slimy trip," he said last week, "but there was plenty of room...
...French copper sous grew the eyes of Professor Corbiere, distinguished naturalist, when he sighted the monster. Never in his life had he seen such a thing as this. The world was waiting for him to speak and for France he must not fail. "It is," he proclaimed, "a cetacean...