Why does a whale spout water ?
The spout of the whale is a giant cousin of that filmy white breath which you puff out on a frosty morning. Your breath gathered water vapor from you moist insides and the cool air condensed it into a little cloud. Now puff up your imagination and think of a whale longer than ten elephants standing on top of each other. He took a great breath into his steamy insides and held it underwater for from 15 minutes to an hour. What a huge damp breath he would blow when he comes up for air and so he does, “Thar she blows!” shout the happy whalers when these monsters of the deep spout their steamy fountains above the surface of the sea. For not only have they spotted their target, but the spouting bet often tells them what kind of a whale it is. A sloping spray, bushy like a plumey tail, may belong to the vicious killer whale. A Y shaped fountain most likely belongs to the baleen right whale. I spray of 10 to 12 feet straight up into the air might be the finback whale. And a tall spout of 20 fe
