{"id":137237,"date":"2013-08-14T08:00:22","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T06:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madrimasd.org\/blogs\/biologia_pensamiento\/?p=137237"},"modified":"2013-08-27T09:38:27","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T07:38:27","slug":"las-barbas-de-la-ballena-en-el-parrafo-tricentesimo-quincuagesimo-quinto-de-el-origen-de-las-especies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madrimasd.org\/blogs\/biologia_pensamiento\/2013\/08\/14\/137237","title":{"rendered":"Las barbas de la ballena en el p\u00e1rrafo tricent\u00e9simo quincuag\u00e9simo quinto de El Origen de las Especies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSMIHlur5gz2Q39dAU61u4-daveINa0_pxwytMUxBbfvqtUmxYuHA\" alt=\"\" width=\"309\" height=\"163\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Un p\u00e1rrafo descriptivo, al m\u00e1s puro estilo de Herman Melville, \u00a0con quien cas\u00ed seguro que el autor se cruzar\u00eda alguna vez por Londres.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>355<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The Greenland whale is one of the most wonderful animals in the world, and the baleen, or whalebone, one of its greatest peculiarities. The baleen consists of a row, on each side of the upper jaw, of about 300 plates or laminae, which stand close together transversely to the longer axis of the mouth. Within the main row there are some subsidiary rows. The extremities and inner margins of all the plates are frayed into stiff bristles, which clothe the whole gigantic palate, and serve to strain or sift the water, and thus to secure the minute prey on which these great animals subsist. The middle and longest lamina in the Greenland whale is ten, twelve, or even fifteen feet in length; but in the different species of Cetaceans there are gradations in length; the middle lamina being in one species, according to Scoresby, four feet, in another three, in another eighteen inches, and in the Balaenoptera rostrata only about nine inches in length. The quality of the whalebone also differs in the different species.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>La ballena franca es uno de los animales m\u00e1s maravillosos del mundo, y sus barbas una de sus mayores particularidades. Las barbas forman, a cada lado de la mand\u00edbula superior, una fila de unas 300 l\u00e1minas o placas muy juntas, dispuestas transversalmente con relaci\u00f3n del eje mayor de la boca. Dentro de la fila principal hay algunas filas secundarias. La extremidad y el borde interno de todas las placas est\u00e1n deshilachadas, formando cerdas r\u00edgidas, que cubren todo el gigantesco paladar y sirven para tamizar o filtrar el agua y, de este modo, retener las peque\u00f1as presas de que viven estos grandes animales. La l\u00e1mina de en medio, que es la m\u00e1s larga, en la ballena franca tiene diez, doce y hasta quince pies de longitud; pero en las diferentes especies de cet\u00e1ceos hay gradaciones en la longitud, teniendo, seg\u00fan Scoresby, la l\u00e1mina de en medio cuatro pies de largo en una especie, tres en otra, diez y ocho pulgadas en otra, y en la Balaenoptera rostrata s\u00f3lo unas nueve pulgadas. La calidad de las barbas var\u00eda tambi\u00e9n en las diferentes especies.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lectura aconsejada:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/digital.csic.es\/handle\/10261\/76630\">\u00a0Manual para detectar la impostura cient\u00edfica: Examen del libro de Darwin por Flourens.<\/a> Digital CSIC, 2013. 225 p\u00e1ginas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Un p\u00e1rrafo descriptivo, al m\u00e1s puro estilo de Herman Melville, \u00a0con quien cas\u00ed seguro que el autor se cruzar\u00eda alguna vez por Londres. &nbsp; \u00a0 355 \u00a0 The Greenland whale is one of the most wonderful animals in the world, and the baleen, or whalebone, one of its greatest peculiarities. The baleen consists of a row, on each side of the upper jaw, of about 300 plates or laminae, which stand close together transversely to the longer axis of the mouth. Within the main row there are some subsidiary rows. 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