Sentences with phrase «for blubber»

The whales celebrate with champagne in front of banners that read, «We Wail No More for our Blubber,» «Oil's Well that Ends Well,» and «The Oil Wells of Our Native Land, May They Never Secede,» and «Oily Gammon.»

Every year, more than 2,000 whales of varying species are killed for their blubber and meat.

We learned that the seals were hunted for their blubber in the 19th century to the point of near - extinction.

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

Not exact matches

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.

Japan has failed to sell three - quarters of its 2011 whale - meat harvest, a loss of appetite for cetacean blubber that may spell the end of the hunt in the world's largest whaling nation.

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For example, whale's milk is especially high in fat because whale babies need a thick layer of blubber to keep warm in cold waters.

National Marine Fisheries Service lab staff are studying the blubber for organic pollutants like PCBs and flame retardants.

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.

While the researchers in the current study can't pinpoint exposure, people in the Faroe Islands eat a lot of seafood, such as whale meat and blubber — which act like storage containers for these persistent chemicals.

But today in a statement to the islanders, chief medical officers Pál Weihe and Høgni Debes Joensen announced that pilot whale meat and blubber contains too much mercury, PCBs and DDT derivatives to be safe for human consumption.

It is not known, for example, whether transients are content to rip blubber off whales for supper or whether they frequently succeed in making kills of adult whales.

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.

An important adaptation for marine mammals is blubber, a thick, insulating layer of fat beneath the skin that helps to keep body warmth in and the cold of the air or water out.

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.

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

Howard Rosenbaum, director of the Wildlife Conservation Society's Ocean Giants Program, told Live Science that, for many marine mammal species, a thick layer of fat called blubber is «first and foremost» in their list of defenses against the cold.

Their blubber is too thick for blood samples to be taken easily.

It would seem that a large source of vitamin C, as well as other vitamins, for the traditional Inuit people was raw organ meats and blubber of various marine animals.

For Americans — who do not eat bugs or blubber — butter is not just better, it is essential.

For instance, the posterior, dorsal blubber of a sperm whale is 25 % carbohydrates.

While Dr. Eades is correct that glycogen tends to degrade rather quickly from muscle meat, here we have a study where the average post-mortem time for flensing was 28.4 hrs and the researchers still found that Sperm Whale blubber contained «significant» carbohydrate reserves.

... The significant levels of carbohydrate, probably mostly in the form of glycogen, in both blubber and muscle, may represent an instant form of energy for diving via anaerobic glycolysis.

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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.

Kate Winslet kept it together for her first gong, but when she picked her Best Actress (Drama) award, even some sage words from Thompson on her way to the stage couldn't help her blubbering love fest speech («And to the make - up and hair department...» seriously, the amount of people she gave props to, I felt kind of left out).

Kidman was given the Oscar for losing the year before to the blubbering mess that was Halle Berry's wildly overblown performance in Monster's Ball.

Chase's authority over the crew of the Essex, as they set upon sail for whale blubber, undermines George Pollard's power, creating conflict that sees the ship endure unnecessary storm hardship.

The cliches start bubbling up (this job is better than digging ditches, somebody says - yeah, but at least with a ditch, there's something to show for it), and the blubbering in the toilet stalls doesn't elicit much sympathy, either.

When the nature of his mistake is made clear, however, he breaks down into a blubbering wreck and we see him for the scared child he truly is.

It's not that Walter discovers that his life is slotted for one eventuality, noble or ignoble, but that Walter has a stupid murder mystery to solve that somehow involves his blubbering wife Agatha (Virginia Madsen, egregiously wasted) and numerology expert Isaac (Danny Huston, doing Dustin Hoffman's role as the picture's exposition).

Another reading mentor, Pandit Wright, executive vice president of human resources and administration for Discovery Communication, Inc., apologized for «blubbering» about her Everybody Wins!

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?

Starvation and freezing to death were always possibilities; hunters left the villages to travel to the Arctic Coast, searching for seals for meat, skins, and blubber to fuel their life - saving fires.

The calf needs about 190 litres (50 gallons) of milk a day to help it gain the blubber it needs for the trip north again.

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.

Shore station where whale blubber was boiled down for the oil in the 1850s and 1860s, halfway out on the inner beach of Ballast Point

The blue whale was too swift and powerful for the 19th century whalers to hunt, but with the arrival of harpoon cannons, they became a much sought after species for their large amounts of blubber.

Pups nurse for about a month, during which time the moms don't eat — both female and baby live off the energy stored in mom's blubber.

It started as early as the 1800s when fisherman reduced the whale population to use the blubber for lamp oil.

Consuming whale meat can be a health hazard for humans, since environmental contaminants have been found in the blubber of some species at levels far in excess of what is considered safe.

They can be found in both 3/2 and 4/3 thickness, perfect for wimps like me who will need the extra «blubber» this fall.

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.