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Niall and I begin eating shrimp like we're Baleen whales and fish and peppers all with our fingers, drinking lemonade and laughing.
Charles Karel Bouley: The World in 107.1 Miles Charles Karel Bouley 2010
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Niall and I begin eating shrimp like we're Baleen whales and fish and peppers all with our fingers, drinking lemonade and laughing.
Charles Karel Bouley: The World in 107.1 Miles Charles Karel Bouley 2010
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Niall and I begin eating shrimp like we're Baleen whales and fish and peppers all with our fingers, drinking lemonade and laughing.
Charles Karel Bouley: The World in 107.1 Miles Charles Karel Bouley 2010
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Baleen whales eat so much of the stuff that their tissue is often too toxic to eat.
Kook Peter Heller 2010
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Also the Killer whale is a dolphin- 2nd largest brain in the animal world to the Baleen whale few see.
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Living Baleen whales lack teeth and feed on minute organisms with their brush-like baleen filters.
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Baleen whales like bowhead (Balaena mysticetus), minke, fin, grey (Eschrichtius robustus), pilot (Globicephala melaena), and other larger whales are also a valued source of food.
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Extinct Baleen whales, approximately 25 million years ago, possessed teeth with enamel.
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Baleen was a very pricey place that I would not have attempted on my own modest means.
DearlyDevotedDexter 2005
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Baleen, therefore, though varying from a few inches to a number of feet long, in fact approximates to
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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