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I could be wrong but I think you read the comment backwards.

• rypskar 8y ago
  You are right, for me calf is the natural word to use for a young whale. So using the word baby seems to be to trigger an emotion in readers to set a state for the rest of the text. Indicating that it is more wrong to kill a whale than to kill a cow
  • jazoom 8y ago
    I think that's exactly why they called it a "baby".
• spicymaki 8y ago
  You are right! Misread the comment.