Sentences with phrase «as narwhal»

Melting Arctic ice - sheets will reduce ocean salinities (IPCC, 2001), causing species - specific shifts in the distribution and biomass of major constituents of Arctic food webs, including poleward shifts in communities and the potential loss of some polar species (such as the narwhal, Monodon monoceros).

The stronger presence of this species, bound to become a new apex predator of arctic seas, will likely affect populations of endemic arctic marine mammals such as the narwhal, bowhead, and beluga whales.

Sail along this extraordinary coastline and encounter wildlife such as narwhal, arctic fox, polar bear and musk oxen, against a backdrop of awe - inspiring scenery.

Not exact matches

Journalists, analysts, and campaigners dissected the potential electoral impact of projects with exotic names such as «Dreamcatcher,» «Narwhal,» «Optimizer,» and «Orca,» all while arguing about the importance of «A / B testing», web site «optimization», and field experiments.

Narwhal, the system that allowed the campaign to join together data from multiple databases at once, is a prime example of an improvement heralded as an innovation.

Monitoring a female narwhal showed that her heart rate dropped precipitously low at times as she performed a series of dives after escaping a net (top graph).

Usually, narwhals will escape natural predators such as killer whales by stealthily slipping under ice sheets or huddling in spots too shallow for their pursuers, Williams says.

Finally, narwhals scan vertically as they dive, which could help them find patches of open water where they can surface and breathe amid sea ice cover.

«These hunters spent their whole lives around narwhal, and the reason why their knowledge is valid and should not be questioned as much is because their lives depend on it.»

Narwhals gently rubbing their tusks together are not dueling, as previously believed, but engaged in a type of ritualistic behavior, Nweeia argues.

Many human communities want answers about the current status and future of Arctic marine mammals, including scientists who dedicate their lives to study them and indigenous people whose traditional ways of subsistence are intertwined with the fate of species such as ice seals, narwhals, walruses and polar bears.

Over the several days that the devices stayed on, the researchers discovered that the five narwhals, like other diving marine mammals, lower their heart rate as they swim down — the slower beat extends their oxygen supply.

In order to determine the efects, if any, of the dietary habits of these natives, the data, as stated, were divided into two groups, namely, (a) those obtained in Hudson Bay and Strait amongst natives who live, to an appreciable extent, upon mixed diets, and (b) those obtained in Baffin and Devon Islands amongst natives whose diets, except for about 2 months in the year, consist of the natural foods of their environment (seal, whale, narwhal, walrus, etc.).

For sometimes more than an hour after their tagging and release, narwhals — which fled the scene — also immediately lowered their heart rates to as few as three beats per minute, Williams, Heide - Jørgensen, and their colleagues report today in Science.

When I became a middle and high school history teacher, I took that narwhal experience to heart — or forehead as it were.

• Make it a «non-negotiable» • Recruit and hire teachers who buy - in from the get - go • Provide them with hands - on professional development and plenty of examples • Share and celebrate «best practices» • Identify teachers who do it well and have others visit their classrooms • Give instructional teams time to collaborate and to develop quality prompts • Stockpile successful A.R.T. plans and incorporate them into the school's curriculum map • Hire and / or bring in practicing artists to participate • And, most importantly, get excited - as though you had just seen a narwhal tusk for the first time!

The translation is about protecting unicorns, so it is easily adapted to write about other animals hunted for their horns such as elephants, rhinos or narwhal.

I mean, the chances of someone coming to Amazon to buy your book and leaving with an Ambient Narwhal Nightlight instead is slim, but still... do you really want to rely on the world's biggest and most diverse retailer as your primary outlet for sales?

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Starwhal is also a good choice, as the wacky movements of the narwhals you ride on as you try and pierce the hearts of opponents are always good for a party, and Anna will keep you guessing with its puzzles and story as you try and find out the plot.

Skull and Bones sounds like it could be a lot of fun: Tim described that demo as «charging around the sea, swinging your ship about to deliver spectacular volleys of cannon fire, and using your ram like an enraged narwhal» in his E3 preview, and that absolutely sounds like my kind of nautical videogame.

So I hope you're as excited as I am to learn how to draw Buddy the elf and Mr. Narwhal!

Movement analysis of one satellite - tracked killer whale travelling as part of a group of 20 + killer whales showed that the whale remained in Prince Regent Inlet and in the northern part of the Gulf of Boothia from late August until early October, when locations overlapped aggregations of marine mammal prey species, including seals, narwhal, and bowhead whales (Matthews et al. 2011).

Shipping along the Northwest Passage already appears to be affecting the behavior of narwhals, as Holland reported: