Molting bowhead whales likely rub on rocks to facilitate sloughing off skin (IMAGE)

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Molting bowhead whales likely rub on rocks to facilitate sloughing off skin

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Example of an animal with nearly no sloughing skin (i.e., proportion of body with sloughing skin = <33%) (A) and another bowhead whale with a high degree of sloughing (>66% of body) and a blotchy skin type (B).

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Fortune et al (2017)

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