But tell me, isn't that the noise cetaceans make when they spurt water from their blowholes?
While I was observing this phenomenal creature, two jets of steam and water sprang from its blowholes and rose to an altitude of forty meters, which settled for me its mode of breathing.
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Basilosaurids possessed teeth and a skull remarkably similar in function and structure, both have nostrils (blowholes) located halfway back on the snout, just in front of the eyes.
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All the structures used untrussed cast iron girders, and generally failed from blowholes or other casting defects within the bulk material, and so completely hidden from external view.
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There are also stacks, arches and blowholes.
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Pygmy blue whales also tend to be darker than the other subspecies of blue whales, and the shape of theirblowholeis different.
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At certain times of the year and in bad weather the caverns become filled with water and the entrance acts like a giantblowhole.
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There are coral steps which lead down through an opening in the roof (formerblowhole) into the cave, these steps were built in 1912.
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The mouthline of this species is straight, and the melon forms a small bulge with a crescent-shapedblowholewith forward-pointing tips.
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A subtly shaded, crescent-shaped black band crosses the head just behind theblowhole.
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Vocal cords are not present; their sounds are produced in theblowholesystem, instead.
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Theblowholeblows just after they escape, which takes the life of two pirates.
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The sheer cliffs over the beach have a scenic walking path, featuring ablowhole, views of sea stacks and a multitude of wildlife.
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Once on land or immobilised in knee-deep water, a cut is made across its top near theblowholeto partially sever its head.
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An indistinct light gray "rostral saddle" may be present, and a few individuals can have pale, thin "blowholestreaks" trailing from the blowholes.
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He gets blown out of the whale'sblowholeand falls back down, his head getting stuck in theblowhole.
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Theblowholeis most active when the tide is high and the winds are strong.
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