Sentences with phrase «by a whale for»

I would also question the judgement of a person who believes in a virgin woman giving birth, a worldwide flood where all the animals in the world were able to fit in an ark, a man who was swallowed by a whale for three days and survived, etc..

The collection is comprised of a boardroom table, a chair, lamps and acoustic wall panels — with design components inspired by the whale for which the collection derives its name.

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Another term for price manipulation is «buy walls» and «sell walls» often initiated by a group of individuals in the crypto market, known as «whales.»

Known as the «London Whale» saga for risky gambles in derivatives in London, the bank was the subject of an intense investigation by the U.S. Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.

In both Christianity and Islam, Jonah is famous for being the prophet who was swallowed by a whale.

@ Jillienne «Stand YOUR own ground, don't expect people to forsake God by telling them how «impossible» it is for a man to be swallowed by a fish, an argument that really bears no weight actually, because frankly, if you believe that Dinosaurs once roamed the earth (a proven fact) there is nothing wrong with believing a man could have been swallowed by a giant whale... it's really not that strange..»

By this he meant that although inorganic matter was inevitably subject to entropy, (all the structure of peaks and valleys puddling out into a flat line of cosmic death) organic matter, life, had a reverse drive for higher and higher complexities, from the amoebae to the whale brain.

As soon as an animal becomes of no more use to humans, as for example when the products now used from whales are superseded by synthetics, then there are no arguments left for the preservation of whales except that we like looking at them.

In the debate over whether a man could literally be swallowed by a whale, or a great fish, and live therein for three days, the real significance of the book has often been lost.

And much of the early demand driving whaling was for whale oil, which was later superseded by petroleum.

Mr. and Mrs. Gwynne Evans of that city live in a famous island showplace, one of «The Three Bricks,» the Main Street mansions built by a prosperous whaling man for his three sons.

Seeing gigantic beluga whales just casually swim by was pretty incredible for the whole family!

Plus, as may happen with other sound machines or apps on your phone, you won't be driven to the brink of insanity by the Dohm, by waiting for the loop to «click over» into the next cycle, or by waiting for that sixth whale tone or bird call, or be totally creeped out at 2 a.m. by the sound of a beating heart (oh yes, that's a sound machine option, too).

For a fun outdoor science activity, teach your kids about whales by drawing a life size whale with chalk!

When you buy the Fisher - Price Precious Planet Whale of a Tub you know that you are doing the best for your little one during bath time because this product is backed by the trusted Fisher - Price name.

The line up, curated by Fearne Cotton, has yet to revealed but with past performers including Newton Faulkner, Noah and the Whale, Lianne La Havas, Rae Morris, Mistajam, Gabrielle Aplin, and Maverick Sabre you'll be in for a treat!

Tedisco & Ball Join John Hargrove, Former SeaWorld Killer Whale Trainer Featured in «Blackfish», Yakkul a Dog Rescued by U.S. Special Forces in Afghanistan, and Nimee, a Disabled Pooch that uses a Wheelchair, for 4th Annual NYS Animal Advocacy Day

Despite the long gap since then, mean concentration of the chemicals in the blubber of some populations of Europe's killer whales exceeds — often by a lot — a high threshold for health damage.

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.

For instance, the number of whale sharks at Ningaloo Reef in Western Australia declined on average by 19 percent from 2001 to 2005.

Yet in recent decades, anthropogenic ocean noise levels have risen markedly — doubling every decade for the past 50 years, according to research by scientists at Scripps Whale Acoustic Lab.

«For a long time, our comprehension of whale evolutionary history was hampered by the fact that most paleontologists were searching for bones relatively close to home, in Europe and North America,» Lambert saFor a long time, our comprehension of whale evolutionary history was hampered by the fact that most paleontologists were searching for bones relatively close to home, in Europe and North America,» Lambert safor bones relatively close to home, in Europe and North America,» Lambert says.

Known as the «right» kind of whales for hunting, the last North Pacific right whale in Canadian waters was seen (and killed) by whalers in 1951.

One way to avoid being eaten was to emit echolocation sounds that were difficult for killer whales to detect — thus an ability favored by evolution, «concludes Lee Miller and Magnus Wahlberg in their research article.

Instead the skeleton, mounted by wire from both floor and ceiling, will float at eye level for visitors, attesting in a new, permanent exhibit to the evolving relationship — happily, a more respectful one — between humans and whales.

«No matter whether human being, mouse, whale or bacterium, nature does not constantly invent proteins for various living organisms anew, but varies them by evolutionary mutation and selection,» Alexander Schug of the Steinbuch Centre for Computing (SCC) says.

Besides Amundsen's, there was the Japanese expedition under Lieut. Shirase, which had to retreat to Australia last spring in order to replenish its supply of dogs, and which Amundsen says landed on January 16th at the Bay of Whales, two weeks before he sailed for home; Dr. Mawson's Australian expedition, for which $ 215,000 had been raised up to November 1st last, and which was to land three parties between Cape Adare and Gaussberg; the German expedition under Lieut. Filchner in the «Deutschland,» elaborately equipped with wireless, magnetic, and meteorological apparatus, full of the hope of establishing a base southwest of Coats Land in as high a latitude as possible; and lastly, Capt. Scott's English expedition in the «Terra Nova,» which left New Zealand in November, 1910, badly damaged by stormy weather; so badly, indeed, that the necessary repairs and the cost of making good the stores that had been lost seriously depleted the resources of the party.

The researchers don't know exactly what is prompting the whales to eat otters, but Estes asserts that the chain of events leading to the otter's decline may have been triggered by a boom in commercial fishing in the Bering Sea — which could have sharply curtailed or altered the food supply for sea lions and seals.

«I haven't been impressed by their knowledge and understanding of killer whale biology,» said Craig Matkin, a marine mammal biologist from Homer, Alaska, who has been studying orcas for 20 years.

«And that it's okay for Japan to propose a new plan which involves killing whales as long as it takes account of the reasoning and conclusions set by the ICJ at this time.»

The court ruling was actually good for Japan by upholding the legal basis for whaling, said Joji Morishita, Japan's commissioner to the International Whaling Commissionwhaling, said Joji Morishita, Japan's commissioner to the International Whaling CommissionWhaling Commission (IWC).

Lunging data was collected by placing electronic tags on the whales to measure speed, acceleration and timing of the mouth opening in order to create different lunging profiles for each target prey species.

The study also refutes claims by Norwegian and Japanese whale hunters that hunting is necessary for scientific reasons, Clark argues: «This research shows that you can study these animals better alive than dead.»

One more unusual behavior may be explained by the hagfish lifestyle: The slime «eels» live on the sea floor, burrowing into the mud and even into dead whale carcasses to scavenge for food.

Then they administered a carefully calculated sedative with a dart gun developed for large whale drug delivery by Paxarms NZ in collaboration with Dr. Michael Moore, director of the Marine Mammal Center at WHOI and a marine mammal veterinarian.

In a paper published online Dec. 9, 2015, in Marine Mammal Science, a research team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), has for the first time quantified the amount of drag on entangled whales that is created by towing fishing gear, such as rope, buoys, and lobster and crab traps.

By affixing DTAGs — synchronous motion and acoustic recording tags — to the whales» backs via four suction cups, the researchers could track for the first time the movements of the whales below the ocean's surface.

The research was supported by the International Fund for Animal Welfare, the Pew Environmental Group and the International Whaling Commission.

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Researchers saw dining in progress and lowered a GoPro camera on a pole for an underwater view of the whale swooping by.

«The hunting of large whales is managed by the International Whaling Commission,» added Baker, who works out of OSU's Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport, Ore. «But there is no international or inter-governmental organization to set quotas or provide management advice for hunting small cetaceans.

Last December, Australia sent the Ocean Viking to monitor Japan's whaling fleet in Antarctica and by late January, an Australian federal court had ruled that it was illegal for Japanese to whale within 200 nautical (230 statute) miles of their Antarctic territory.

THE US Navy has admitted for the first time that the sonar used by its ships can injure whales and dolphins.

For the work published in PLOS ONE, the scientists then used acoustic calls produced by the whales to separate — for the first time — the catches taken from the California population from those whales taken in the western Northern Pacific near Japan and RussFor the work published in PLOS ONE, the scientists then used acoustic calls produced by the whales to separate — for the first time — the catches taken from the California population from those whales taken in the western Northern Pacific near Japan and Russfor the first time — the catches taken from the California population from those whales taken in the western Northern Pacific near Japan and Russia.

«Epic journey by blue whale: First link to breeding ground for Chilean blue whales.»

The microphones record data at a sample rate of 8kHz, so the group listens up to 4kHz — for scale, the highest note on a normally tuned, standard piano is 4.186 kHz — to include signals produced by large whales like fins, humpbacks, bowheads and killer whales, as well as pinnipeds such as bearded seals and walrus.

Pegging the trend toward giant sizes to the Plio - Pleistocene ruled out other hypotheses such as the threat of predation by the huge shark megalodon — which had already been around for millions of years before the whales» growth spurt — or the advent of filter feeding, which had been around for more than 15 million years at that point.

«By visualizing the data with TrackPlot, we can actually see how the whale moves underwater and this enables us to discover different kinds of foraging behaviors,» said lead author Colin Ware of the University of New Hampshire's Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping.

«Killer whales have been thought of by some as something like the poster child» for the process, «because there are multiple genetically distinct populations [which have not yet been formally described as separate species] with different prey preferences in the North Pacific and Antarctic,» says Phillip Morin, a cetacean biologist at the Southwest Fisheries Science Center in San Diego, California, who was not involved in the new study.

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