Question

3. Why
was the whale's back ‘glistening?​

Answer 1

Answer:

Whales live in the water, so they are always wet. Wet skin glistens.

Answer 2

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Once they'd dispatched the whale, they towed it back to the beach, where they sliced out the ... so that the man at the bow could hurl his harpoon into the whale's glistening black flank.