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Combining data from these tags with measurements of whale jaws from museum specimens, the team modeled the drag experienced by the whale as it performs its complex underwater acrobatics.

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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.»

The late spike was understandable (and debated at the time) as any larger whales would have wanted to try to asses what total percentage of the ultimate supply they were likely to grab by diving in a the last minute — knowing what it was looking likely to be based on the previous 10 - 12 days of inflow — which was public, of course.

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.

Q. 4 It is only acceptable as an adult to believe childish Bronze Age mythology like talking snakes, the Red Sea splitting, water turning into wine by magic, mana falling from the sky, a man living in a whale's belly, a talking donkey, superhuman strength, a man rising from the dead and angels, ghosts, gods and demons in the field of:

One of [the whale's] peculiarities it is, to have an entire non-valvular structure of the blood - vessels, so that when pierced even by so small a point as a harpoon, a deadly drain is at once begun upon his whole arterial system; and when this is heightened by the extraordinary pressure of water at a great distance below the surface, his life may be said to pour from him in incessant streams.

If intrinsic value is «measured» by richness of experience, it follows that creatures such as primates and whales have more intrinsic value than worms and mosquitoes.

As soon as an animal becomes of no more use to humans, as for example when the products now used from whales are superseded by synthetics, then there are no arguments left for the preservation of whales except that we like looking at theAs soon as an animal becomes of no more use to humans, as for example when the products now used from whales are superseded by synthetics, then there are no arguments left for the preservation of whales except that we like looking at theas an animal becomes of no more use to humans, as for example when the products now used from whales are superseded by synthetics, then there are no arguments left for the preservation of whales except that we like looking at theas for example when the products now used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

If any species evolved the ability to speak as we do, things would definitely, be extremely different, by the way it is proven that most species «CAN» communicate to each other among their own species, Whales, porpoises, dogs, birds, etc.etc.etc, and many can tell what the voice and actions of another species mean.

As much as he hates the whale, as much as he wants to destroy the creature, he yearns unknowingly to be consumed by iAs much as he hates the whale, as much as he wants to destroy the creature, he yearns unknowingly to be consumed by ias he hates the whale, as much as he wants to destroy the creature, he yearns unknowingly to be consumed by ias much as he wants to destroy the creature, he yearns unknowingly to be consumed by ias he wants to destroy the creature, he yearns unknowingly to be consumed by it.

That's in part because it was driven by rally legends such as Juha Kankkunen, Tommi Makinen, and Carlos Sainz, but also because of that colossal whale - tail rear wing.

At this size it is small enough to be ingested by every single organism in the world's oceans — animals as small as krill and salps (plankton feeders) right up to the great Blue Whale.

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).

Its exact causes are still uncertain, but its growth may be spurred by the irritation created by indigestible elements in the foods eaten by the whales, such as the beaks of cuttlefish, which are almost invariably found in ambergris.

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.

In Cape Cod Bay, man - made noise has reduced right whales» acoustic habitat by as much as 80 percent, says Chris Clark, director of Cornell University's Bioacoustics Research Program.

But by 1900, production had reached 60 million barrels annually as world markets replaced wood and whale oil with petroleum and coal as the fuels of choice.

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.

Many dolphins and whales seem to be able to narrow or widen the beam at will by deforming a lump of fat in their forehead, known as the melon, the way a glass lens can shape a cone of light.

Governments helped it along by taking steps to prevent ship strikes, such as imposing speed limits on or rerouting larger vessels in some waters, and installing sensors that can warn mariners when the whales are nearby.

Much of a sperm whale's head is occupied by the spermaceti organ, a huge fibrous cask containing a milky, waxy material that was highly prized as a lubricant and lamp oil, and which to Nantucket whalers looked like nothing more than gallons and gallons of semen — hence the name.

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.

Conservationists have condemned Norway's decision to increase the number of minke whales it can kill by 45 per cent, describing the move as unjustified and «political posturing».

«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.»

Biologists studying great right whales (such as Roger Payne in Argentine Patagonia) recognize individuals by the unique patterns of whitish growths, called callosities, on the whales» heads.

He adds, «With all the other cases, there is some uncertainty as to whether the population declines were really caused by killer whales.»

This was elicited by the relatively high price of whale oil as the whales got shy and scarce.

A panel convened by the International Whaling Commission's scientific committee made the same points about the scientific value of Japan's whaling in the North Pacific as those contained in the ICJ judgment of the AntarcticWhaling Commission's scientific committee made the same points about the scientific value of Japan's whaling in the North Pacific as those contained in the ICJ judgment of the Antarcticwhaling in the North Pacific as those contained in the ICJ judgment of the Antarctic catch.

He will show how the robot — called a Seaglider — can measure the wind speed, listen in to the sounds made by fishes and whales, and pick up human activities, such as marine traffic and seismic surveys.

The Whale Book: Whales and Other Marine Animals as Described by Adriaen Coenen in 1584 Edited by Florike Egmond and Peter Mason (Reaktion Books, $ 35)

TrackPlot, a custom software tool developed by Ware, translated the tags» data into a three - dimensional ribbon that illustrated the whales» paths as they repeatedly dove to the bottom of the ocean, rolled onto their sides, tilted their heads down, and feasted on sand lance, a favorite food that is abundant there.

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.

A giant earwax plug pulled from a blue whale recently revealed a fair bit of its life history, from its testosterone kicking in as it grew up to its times of stress (measured by cortisol levels) and contaminants it picked up from the waters it swam in.

Scientists studying blue whales in the waters of Chile through DNA profiling and photo - identification may have solved the mystery of where these huge animals go to breed, as revealed by a single female blue whale named «Isabela,» according to a recent study by the Chile's Blue Whale Center / Universidad Austral de Chile, NOAA and the Wildlife Conservation Socwhale named «Isabela,» according to a recent study by the Chile's Blue Whale Center / Universidad Austral de Chile, NOAA and the Wildlife Conservation SocWhale Center / Universidad Austral de Chile, NOAA and the Wildlife Conservation Society.

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.

A new study shows that these whales and outsized land mammals — as well as seabirds and migrating fish — played a vital role in keeping the planet fertile by transporting nutrients from ocean depths and spreading them across seas, up rivers, and deep inland, even to mountaintops.

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.

«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.

Researchers determined the whales» current population numbers by comparing photographic shots of humpbacks in their North Pacific feeding grounds (around the Pacific Rim from California to Kamchatka) to images taken of the whales in their southern, tropical breeding areas — some as far as 3000 miles away.

Instead, Fitzgerald contends, the whale depended on suction feeding: By dropping its tongue and lower jaw, it pulled in water and slurped prey such as large fish or squid into its toothy maw.

That program, known as JARPA II, called for taking 850 minkes, 50 humpbacks, and 50 fin whales annually, though in recent years actual captures fell far below those targets because of interference by antiwhaling activists.

Other species, such as tiger sharks, are known to be partial to whale meat, but they get it by scavenging.

Further, the findings of the new study confirm the unique nature of Arabian Sea humpback whales, which recently was listed as «Endangered» under the US Endangered Species Act by evaluating extinction risk of this discrete population.

But the skull of a previously unknown species of whale suggests alternatively that they started filter feeding by adapting teeth to act as sieves.

Rolland hadn't anticipated that whales might be damaged by noise, concentrating instead on causes of stress such as red tides, toxins, and disease.

During the later period, when there was less sea ice, the whales dove significantly longer and deeper than in the earlier period — presumably in search of prey as the animals, in turn, changed their habits because of different ocean conditions brought on by sea ice loss.

In 30 trials, the scientists presented Wikie with recordings of unfamiliar sounds and words spoken by trainers, which the whale was then instructed to copy as in - air vocalizations (rather than underwater).

Many whales feed by filling their mouths with water, then straining organisms out of that water as they expel it, using fibrous plates in their mouth called baleen.

For example, beluga whales live rough 50 some years, they are short - lived whales, some of them get type II diseases and as such, show diabetic human - like features of accelerated collagen crosslinking by AGEs production during glycation / glycoxidation to their hyperglycemia.

Habitat is being disturbed and polluted by offshore oil development in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas, and as CO2 warms our planet, the arctic ice pack is rapidly melting; the whales are in danger from noise, oil spills and deadly collisions with ships, while global warming is steadily melting their icy abode and reducing available food.