Naomi at the Natural History Museum

I can't remember whether the big Blue Whale behind Naomi is a stuffed real one or a life size model. either way, it is, so we were told, anotomically incorrect. Apparently the original was found washed up on a beach. The people responsible for making the model or however reproducing the original took their measurements of the creature to use later. However, unbeknown to them, after death in such a way, whales swell up, so this creature has, in fact, the anatomical proportions of a swollen, dead, whale, rather than a live one. if you look at the size of it, though, you can see why they just left it as it was.

Naomi and the whales

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