This Article From Issue
May-June 2019
Volume 107, Number 3
Page 132
To the Editors:
I read “The Complex Rise of Baleen” (Spotlight, January–February) with interest. However, every educated reader should know that the real explanation for the whale’s baleen is found in Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories, “How the Whale Got His Throat”:
By means of a grating
I have stopped your ating.
Susan E. Hodge
Columbus, OH
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