Sentences with phrase «by whales on»

The Heath Ledger - directed Modest Mouse video for «King Rat,» released Tuesday, follows the animated adventures of a ship helmed by whales on the hunt for humans — harpoons and all.Ledger developed the video to draw attention to

Not exact matches

Dimon included a warning over the London Whale episode in his remarks on Tuesday: «And, anyone who sues, we're going to fight that one to the end, too, by the way.

The current market is dealing with one whale of a black eye caused by suspicion over high - frequency trading and its stranglehold on market activity.

Bruno Mars started out by impressively whaling on the drums, then broke into his hit «Locked Out of Heaven,» and the rest was history.

In so doing, they rejected government ownership of cod fishery on the basis of Britain's failure to strengthen its whaling industry by nationalization, and they rejected outright subsidies to the wealthy owners who controlled the boats and warehouses on the basis that any government tax credits had to include workers.

A study on humpback whales by ecologists from Denmark and Australia has revealed that baby whales communicate with their mothers in whispers to avoid the risk of attention from predators and other mating 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.

The announcement came on the same day JPMorgan agreed to pay $ 920 million to settle investigations by U.S. and Britain regulators into the «London Whale» trading losses.

It is hard to say just what Moby - Dick, Melville's greatest and most famous work, really is: a metaphysical Romantic tragedy about Captain Ahab's sexual obsession with an enormous white whale; an immense picaresque comedy about sailing; or a serio - comic grand opera that begins with the narrating Ishmael bored by the streaming crowds of New York and ends with him alone in the ocean, floating on the harpooner Queequeg's coffin.

Even though it flatly contradicts astronomy, geology and biology, Morris attempts to defend a literal reading of his textbook on the facts of nature: «The Bible teaches that the earth existed before the stars, that it was initially covered by water, that plant life preceded the sun, that the first animals created were the whales, that birds were made before insects, that man was made before woman.»

Which judging by the rest of the comments on this topic, is actually a requirement, so I'm in good company (Mark from Middle River take note — It was Sea Shepherd who had their boat run over by the whaling ship, not Greenpeace, and whilst I agree the boat was a beauty, I don't think ramming it is in the same league of destroying works of art (regardless of how bad) the topic refers to)

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).

To keep the kiddos from bumping their head on the waterspout, try this whale of a cover by Skip Hop.

Experts from a wildlife conservation group say a dead whale that washed up on a New York beach was likely hit by a boat.

On a whim, Osborne and Akerboom swabbed the bones from a prehistoric whale found by Alford.

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

Using a star - recognition algorithm developed by NASA, volunteers Jason Holmberg and Zaven Arzoumanian, and marine biologist Brad Norman from Murdoch University in Australia, have developed software that can assign a whale shark a «digital fingerprint» based on a photograph of the pattern of spots on its back.

A sperm whale's click is by far the loudest sound produced by any organism on the planet.

By tallying field reports and rope scars found on whales, researchers have concluded that about 50 North Atlantic right whales become tangled each year, and about 83 % of all whales have gotten caught at least once.

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.

The 126 bones of the latter - day leviathan, some laid out on tables, others in drawers, form the centerpiece of an exhibition entitled From the Deep: The Sperm Whale, Bone by Bone.

Back in September 1860, Scientific American had an article, and I quote from that article: «A paper has just been published in England on the capture of whales by the means of poison, the agent being hydrocyanic or prussic acid.

She was featured in the documentary by reporter Victoria Gill and producer Andrew Luck - Baker on menopause among female killer whales, who stop having babies in their 30s or 40s.

This week on Picks: prosopagnosia -LRB-!!!!), violent video games, delusions, white whales, a frog that got fried by a NASA spaceship, and so much more.

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.

Researchers at the Cascadia Research Collective in Olympia, Washington, tracked seven whales — which they recognized by the markings on their tail flukes — from their summer feeding grounds in the Antarctic Ocean to their winter breeding grounds off the Pacific coast of Central America.

After an experienced trainer was pulled in and killed by an orca at SeaWorld, a wildlife biologist who studies the species explains how a killer whale's natural behavior might help shed light on what happened

That number dwarfs the figure of 100,000 previously accepted by the IWC and based on 19th century whaling records.

«Southern right whale calf wounding by Kelp Gulls increased to nearly all over four decades: Once rare, wounds from Kelp Gulls observed on nearly all mothers and calves by the 2000s at Peniacutensula Valdeacutes, Argentina.»

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.

Matkin and other biologists say there is no compelling historical evidence that large numbers of killer whales were ever dependent on the great whales wiped out by industrial whaling.

Not all orcas are slaughtering sea mammals — at least not on North America's West Coast, where killer whales have been studied closely by scientists.

In addition, a global theory of killer whale predation depends on educated — and far - flung — guesses of how many marine mammals may have been killed by orcas over a set period of time.

Overall, the study's data from mitochondrial DNA — different from nuclear DNA in that it helps scientists trace maternal lineages — reveal that population structure in humpback whales is largely driven by female whales that return annually to the same breeding grounds and by the early experience of calves that accompany their mothers on their first round - trip migration to the feeding grounds.

Humpback whales commonly feed on large prey shoals by accelerating to high speeds and «lunging» at their prey, engulfing a large volume of water and filtering out the prey through their filter feeders.

Locked in the ice on their ship, the Endurance, after a long, dark winter, Ernest Shackleton and his men were gladdened by the sight of Adélies, seals, and whales «disporting themselves in the leads» between ice floes.

Burial in the ancient sea of Zealandia: a Toipahautea whale skeleton is slowly covered by sand 27 - 28 million years ago, on its path to become a fossil.

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.

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.

In its statement, IWC points out its reviews and reports «have been widely debated and referenced by parties on all sides of the [scientific whaling] debate including the 2014 ruling of the International Court of Justice,» which found that Japan's whaling program was not about science.

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.

Now a group has found evidence that harbor seals learn to tell which killer whales are dangerous by eavesdropping on their conversations.

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

Most of the pilot whales that were stranded in the Florida Everglades swam into deeper water on Thursday while rescuers tried to chase the rest out to sea by banging on pipes and revving their boat engines.

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.

The earliest whales were predators with sharp teeth — a legacy carried on by today's orcas, dolphins and other toothed whales.

Enzymes are the powerhouses behind biological chemistry, and the fungi discovered by O'Malley's group — like Anaeromyces robustus (named after the gray whale, partially based on how it looks under the microscope)-- have unusual and desirable characteristics, particularly the ability to transform lignocellulose from plants into sugars.

Among the issues these committees were asked to look into this year were the possible dangers of whale watching, the effects of chemical pollution on whales, how the IWC might protect dolphins, porpoises and other small cetaceans, and whether subsistence whaling by indigenous peoples should be subject to scientific management.