Sentences with phrase «dolphin blubber»

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.

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Biotoxins that dolphins had accumulated in their blubber may also have been released as the weakened mammals broke down their fat for sustenance, flooding their systems with toxins that hamper an immune response.

If muscle moves the dolphin tail in one direction, blubber can help pull it back, like a Slinky spring snapping back.

We found that PCBs were at excessively high concentrations in the blubber of several marine apex predator species across Europe, including killer whales and bottlenose dolphins, and were associated with long - term and on - going population declines.

While researchers have known for awhile now that the blubber of these animals contain toxins, they're now seeing the those whales and dolphins living near urban areas have higher concentrations.

Now, the blubber of dolphins and whales are packed with PCBs, flame retardants and even DDT, all of which have been linked to cancer, neurological damage, reproductive harm and other problems.