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Four-year-old Quentin Alexis, left, and Michael Quinn, 5, are amazed to see and touch a whale's baleen plate, a part of the mouth that is used by some whale species to filter microscopic plankon from water, during a program Tuesday at Maritime Gloucester. The two boys and other pre-schoolers from Pathways for Children visited the center and learned about whales, boats and pre-historic sea creatures.

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