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  • Challenge question #1

    ecooper@boston.k12.ma.us
    Tue, 11 Mar 1997 14:06:18 -0500

    The humpback whales spend the winter in the Carribean. While they
    are there, they live off of their blubber because of the scarcity of the
    kinds of fish that they eat. They eat so much in the north to build up
    blubber that they have plenty to burn off in the Carribean.

    Paul Devenezia, Hugh Roe O'Donnell School, Fifth Grade
    ecooper@boston.k12.ma.us