It was only after confirmation of a viable colon and identification of the optimal stoma site that we felt secure to procede with creating a
blowhole colostomy instead of colectomy.
Blowholes are dependent on weather: air temperature and pressure interact to create the stunning effects when air travels from higher to lower density.
Unlike other baleen whales, the two
blowholes on right whales are widely separated, causing their spouts to be seen as two distinct sprays.
Encourage students to make the whale's eyes, mouth, tail, fins, flippers and
blowhole.
While we don't have
blowholes, we do share a number of traits with humpback whales: we are warm blooded, breathe air, give birth to and nurse' live young.
This air is then forced through a "
blowhole" and into the "Wells Turbine," named for designer Alan Wells, a professor at Queen's University.
She let us rub her belly and look into the
blowhole on top of her head (dolphin use this special "nostril" to breathe).
The whale spouted water from its
blowhole and moved its caudal fin when officials and volunteers resumed their attempts to save it shortly before 7 a.m.
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Blowhole: the whale's "nostril" on top of its head
That tall, white cloudis a humpback whale's breath blasting out of the animal's
blowhole. As the warm air of the breath meets the cooler air sur- rounding it, water vapor turns to beads of water and creates the cloud you see.
She scooped up some water with her bucket and plashed it over him, being careful not to get any in his
blowhole. Soon his body was smooth and shiny.
The most important external measurements (in cm--following Norris, 1961) are: snout to center of eye 26.9, to apex of melon 3.6, to center of
blowhole 27.9, to flipper 35.6, to tip of dorsal fin 84.5, to center of umbilicus 77.5, to genital slit 99.0, and to anus 114.3; flipper anterior length 20.3, posterior length 13.3, and maximum width 5.0; dorsal fin height 11.4, and base 21.5; fluke width 30.4, and length 10.8; girth at axilla 81.2, at eye 66.0, maximum 85.0, at anus 46.9, and 30 cm anterior to fluke notch 35.5; projection of lower jaw < 0.6; length of gape 22.9; eye to gape 5.0, and to center of
blowhole 17.7;
blowhole length 1.0, and width 2.5; length of anal slit 3.7, and of genital slit 10.5.