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American whale oil lit the world. It was used in the production of soap, textiles, leather, paints, and varnishes, and it lubricated the tools and machines that drove the Industrial Revolution. The baleen cut from the mouths of whales shaped the course of feminine fashion by putting the hoop in hooped skirts and giving form to stomachtightening
and chest-crushing corsets. Spermaceti, the waxy substance from the heads of sperm whales, produced the brightest- and cleanest-burning candles the world
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― Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America
― Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America
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In the Caribbean, humpback cow-calf pairs were the prey of choice for traditional and modern whalers. In the search for right whales, the whale biologist E. A. Wilson noted in 1907: ‘the hunt began with the destruction of the calf, because it was known that the mother would then become easy prey, as she would not leave the bay without her suckling’. This type of whaling was perhaps ‘the most complete and rapid method of exterminating an animal that has ever been adopted’.
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― Whale
― Whale
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