Celebrating Valentine’s Day 1: the baleen whales

Chacun à son goût on Valentine’s Day. Here’s cartoonist Lars Kenseth’s take on sentimental gift-giving among the baleen whales (from the 2/15&22/21 issue of the New Yorker): A swarm of krill! How did you know?” From NOAD on the creatures: noun krill: a small shrimplike planktonic crustacean of the open seas. It is eaten by … Continue reading Celebrating Valentine’s Day 1: the baleen whales