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Keeping Warm
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Whales have a thick layer of fat called blubber beneath their skins that keeps them warm in the freezing polar seas. Blubber is such a good insulator that when a whale dies the heat caused by decomposition can actually cook the creature's flesh. | | Blue whale |
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