Sentences with phrase «by blubber»

Immediately I understand the discomfort that a seal or a penguin, insulated by blubber, must feel on a warm day.

We won't give up details about the actual plot, but expect the closing credits to be soundtracked by the blubbering of crying adults.

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If you ask a Mormon these questions, prepare yourself for a blubbering, nonsensical, obfuscation followed by a passionate «testimony»!

Now all it took was one glimpse of the bride being walked down the aisle by her dad for me to fall apart into a blubbering mess.

By this time, any guy who isn't a blubbering idiot or utterly speechless has gotten the biggest clue of all: Your partner is amazing and you're eternally grateful you don't have to do any of that yourself.

So heavy are they that strips of blubber are cut by them from the back of the hapless whale.»

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.

Eubalaena glacialis, the North Atlantic right whale — so - called by 18th century whalers because it was easy to kill and rich in valuable blubber — is one of three right whale species.

They also insulate their bodies with fur, blubber and, in the case of emperor penguins, by huddling en masse against the icy Antarctic winds that can bring the air temperature down to -60 °C.

Beef, goat meat, dolphin blubber, vegetables and fruit — even a bunch of grapes, for example — were gratefully received and gobbled down by these fish, living in or around a canyon called the Valencia trench, midway between Barcelona, Spain, and the Balearic Islands.

They remain intact and — thanks to the cold, dry Antarctic climate — remarkably well preserved, down to the chocolate bars, seal blubber, and dog biscuits carried by these early explorers.

The problem is compounded by their thick layer of blubber, essential for insulation when at rest.

When we put the knife's release catch against the side of the whale, the knife popped in like a little guillotine by about 3 inches, so it could actually cut the blubber and get into the flesh to the embedded line.

We were unable to disentangle it, and it died months later with the blubber being dissected off the back by the net and the line cutting down into the animal.

This morning's video - of - the - day Chicken's Fate is Sealed documents the meat industry's attempts to lower the arachidonic acid level in chicken muscles through genetic manipulation and the egg industry's attempts to lower arachidonic acid levels in hens by feeding hens blubber from baby harp seal pups clubbed to death in the Canadian seal hunt.

Note that native Eskimos traditionally survived on a diet that was 80 % whale blubber — not only was Alaska not abundant in vegetables during the winter months, but they needed the heat generated by a high - fat diet to survive.

So Bulworth, played by a magically revitalized Warren Beatty, who has directed this political satire with jubilant wit and energy, sits blubbering amid his Kennedy - era mementoes, realizing that he's come to the end of the line.

But The Space Between Us, which somehow isn't based on a hit YA novel, reserves plenty of scenes for an Elon Musk type played by Oldman, and you could fit a red planet in the void separating the actor's blubbering commitment to the role from what it deserved.

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Forget the anniversary!If you've ever experienced a time when you wanted to lock your little darlings in the pantry for half an hour of peace, you'll adore this lively, fun read by the crew at Mummies Anonymous.Will Tess get through the morning or will she end up a blubbering mess on the floor?Will her husband be her hero or her villain?

As I have observed before, what critics don't do with female authors is flop down and face east, blubbering and feet - kissing and throwing around extravagant if shopworn designations like «the Great American Novel», creating the sort of hoo - ha that recently surrounded Freedom by Jonathan Franzen.

Upon arrival we get in line and go up, where a kind of conveyor belt takes us one by one to the mud bath, after which we get a simple massage in the warm blubber.

Going into the autumn the seal will be insulated by a 5 cm (2 in) thick layer of blubber, giving them a fat percentage of between 40 and 50 %.

An injured, entangled California sea lion, its chest wrapped in fishing line that has cut deep into its blubber, eluded capture Thursday during an emergency rescue attempt by the Sausalito - based Marine Mammal Center.

Fossil records show that northern elephant seals have been around for millions of years, yet by the end of the 19th century, experts say there were only about 100 seals left as a result of over-hunting by humans, who harvested the animals» valuable blubber in order to make oil.

The skin has to be regrown by blood vessels reaching through the blubber.

trying to distinguish skin from blubber and alluding to the impossibility of fully comprehending a thing so big that you are always either on top of it, or enveloped by it.