This scientist is studying blubber from a Blue whale that has died and washed up on the beach at Newport, R.I.

Blubber is a fatty tissue found under the skin of whales and dolphins. Blubber, a thick layer of fat, acts like insulation for whales and dolphins (warm-blooded mammals) by keeping their temperature stable at 95 degrees even in very cold water.

Also, blubber helps cetaceans store food energy and helps them float with ease (blubber is lighter than water).

Whale blubber ranges from 2 inches thick in the Grey whale to 16 inches thick in the Blue whale.

A Blubber Experiment

Materials: 2 baggies, a bowl of ice, Crisco, a spatuala.

Procedure: With the spatuala, smear some Crisco into the first baggie.

Place your hand into the second baggie.

Then put the second baggie into the baggie lined with Crisco and then into a bowl of ice.

Place your bare hand into a bowl of ice too.

Conclusions: Do you feel a difference?

If so, what?

Is Crisco acting like blubber? Why?