# Blow Holes

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blow-holes/844480>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 6, 2019, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blow-holes/844480 "2019-12-06T19:59:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2019, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blow-holes/844480/9 "2019-12-07T04:53:29Z")

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As I heard it described once, the entire “melon” is just the whale’s or dolphin’s upper lip!

– Senegoid  
[Former dolphin research lab assistant, trainer](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0010027784900039),  
former member [IMATA](https://www.imata.org) (Int’l Marine Animal Trainers’ Ass’n)  
[Charter member, Society of Marine Mammology](https://www.marinemammalscience.org/about-us/history/)

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