baleens

The baleens are the largest of the Cetacea, and also the dumbest.

Cachalot Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1980

For reasons which our limited studies have not been able to establish, the baleens are the mental primitives of the Cetacea.

Cachalot Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1980

Don't you see that whatever's controlling the baleens is a threat to that, even if you're right and it can never control you?

Cachalot Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1980

Neurophonic projectors much larger than that one will keep these creatures under control, will disrupt their power over the baleens.

Cachalot Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1980

Either the baleens carried them to the depths, where they could be transferred to the CunsnuC for disposal, or else the CunsnuC rose to the surface to perform the task themselves.

Cachalot Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1980

But the effort itself, the hostile premeditated attack by the herd of cetaceans, was so unprecedented that she wouldn't be surprised to learn that the baleens had killed the two orcas because they had been working alongside mankind.

Cachalot Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1980

Yet the baleens 'continuing agony was proof that the source of that same pain lay near.

Cachalot Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1980

Perhaps at that time, "he added thoughtfully," we will reveal what we know about the baleens 'responsibility.

Cachalot Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1980

"Unless the baleens and the catodons, all of them, have been hiding abilities and desires we know nothing about."

Cachalot Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1980

If we'd been able to look around, I suspect we would have found fins and seis and minkes and all the other baleens out there, too.

Cachalot Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1980