TY - JOUR
T1 - Cetaceans, sex and sea serpents: an analysis of the Egede accounts of a “most dreadful monster” seen off the coast of Greenland in 1734
AU - Paxton, Charles George Mackay
AU - Knatterudb, E
AU - Hedley, Sharon Louise
N1 - doi: 10.3366/anh.2005.32.1.1
PY - 2005/4/1
Y1 - 2005/4/1
N2 - A re-evaluation of the ?most dreadful monster? originally described by the ?Apostle of Greenland? Hans Egede in 1741 suggests that the missionary's son Poul probably saw an unfamiliar cetacean. The species seen was likely to have been a humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae), a North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) or one of the last remaining Atlantic grey whales (Eschrichtius robustus) either without flukes or possibly a male in a state of arousal.
AB - A re-evaluation of the ?most dreadful monster? originally described by the ?Apostle of Greenland? Hans Egede in 1741 suggests that the missionary's son Poul probably saw an unfamiliar cetacean. The species seen was likely to have been a humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae), a North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) or one of the last remaining Atlantic grey whales (Eschrichtius robustus) either without flukes or possibly a male in a state of arousal.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85138677074
U2 - 10.3366/anh.2005.32.1.1
DO - 10.3366/anh.2005.32.1.1
M3 - Article
SN - 0260-9541
VL - 32
SP - 1
EP - 9
JO - Archives of Natural History
JF - Archives of Natural History
IS - 1
ER -