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Jan 2015
10m 35s

How The Whale Got His Throat

Starglow Media / Wondery
About this episode
Today we bring you an interesting animal origin story from Rudyard Kipling, the author of the Jungle Book. How did whales get so big? Where did their big whale throats come from? We have the answers in the form of this unique, vocabulary-enhancing just-so story. 
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