{"id":52720,"date":"2020-11-13T14:21:47","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T14:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baleinesendirect.org\/les-baleines-peuvent-elles-saliver\/"},"modified":"2020-11-16T21:36:58","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T21:36:58","slug":"do-whales-produce-saliva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baleinesendirect.org\/en\/do-whales-produce-saliva\/","title":{"rendered":"Do whales produce saliva?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"JUSTIFY\">As we know, whales are big eaters and can detect their prey from afar, some species thanks to their sense of taste and smell, others using echolocation. But do their mouths water at the thought of a sizable school of fish or the sight of a cloud of krill? In other words, do whales salivate? This is the eyebrow-raising question our editor-in-chief <a href=\"https:\/\/baleinesendirect.org\/en\/magazine\/authors\/?author=marie-eve-muller\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marie-<\/a>\u00c8<a href=\"https:\/\/baleinesendirect.org\/en\/magazine\/authors\/?author=marie-eve-muller\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ve Muller<\/a> asked herself when writing her <a href=\"https:\/\/baleinesendirect.org\/en\/category\/observation-of-the-week\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cObservations of the Week\u201d<\/a> column. We set out in search of the answer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we know, whales are big eaters and can detect their prey from afar, some species thanks to their sense of taste and smell, others using echolocation. But do their mouths water at the thought of a sizable school of fish or the sight of a cloud of krill? In other words, do whales salivate? 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