Sentences with phrase «in blubber»

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.

Toxins accumulating in blubber can be passed to infants in their mother's milk.

Changes in blubber contaminant concentrations in California sea lions (Zalophus californianus) associated with weight loss and gain during rehabilitation.

Organochlorine pesticides, polychlorinated biphenyls, and butyltin compounds in blubber and livers of stranded California sea lions, elephant seals, and harbor seals from coastal California, USA.

Their body is covered in blubber, which helps them keep warm and reduce drag while they are swimming.

... 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.

But when they actually take the time to measure glycogen and other carbohydrates in blubber, the measurements are very different:

They are rich in blubber, slow - swimming and remain afloat after death.

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.

Dr Paul Jepson, co-author of the study at ZSL and lead veterinarian on the UK Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme (CSIP), said «PCBs were banned in 1981 in the UK, but PCB concentrations only stopped declining in the blubber of UK harbour porpoises around 1998.

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.

There are also other wounds — deep tears in the blubber and evenly spaced, parallel scratches on the skin.

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.

This has been the legacy of the «seeker - friendly» movement within evangelicalism, with its toned - down doctrine encased in the blubber of psychological buzzwords like «brokenness,» «authentic,» and «spirituality.»

That will definitely not leave you in a blubbering, emotional state.

Remember, there's no shame in blubbering over the plight of puppets.

Not exact matches

In the opening pages Luther set the pace, speaking of the Duke rubbing «his scabby and scurvy head» against the Elector, saying that the Duke «curses, blasphemes, shrieks, struggles, bellows, and spits», and says that such books as the Duke's «make me tingle with pleasure from head to toe when I see that through me, poor wretched man that I am, God the Lord maddens and exasperates the hellish and worldly princes... while I sit under the shade of faith and the Lord's Prayer, laughing at the devils and their crew as they blubber and struggle in their great fury»In the opening pages Luther set the pace, speaking of the Duke rubbing «his scabby and scurvy head» against the Elector, saying that the Duke «curses, blasphemes, shrieks, struggles, bellows, and spits», and says that such books as the Duke's «make me tingle with pleasure from head to toe when I see that through me, poor wretched man that I am, God the Lord maddens and exasperates the hellish and worldly princes... while I sit under the shade of faith and the Lord's Prayer, laughing at the devils and their crew as they blubber and struggle in their great fury»in their great fury».

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.

I watched their final concert (in 2016), when Gord Downey said goodbye to us, and I was a blubbering mess.

Given that the digestive system of the baby is not wholly matured, gas will be built up in their stomachs; and the presence of gas causes the baby to blubber and shed tears due to pain.

Blubber contains omega 3 fatty acids which aide in brain development and vitamin D that is essential to consume when many months of the year are spent living with very little sunlight.

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.

I was seriously sitting in front of the computer, blubbering like a little girl reading your UPDATEs.

In order to thrive, they have a thick layer of blubber.

«In my entire life I've never taken anything from anyone,» he blubbered.

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.

Cranford had to temporarily stash the head in the Navy's freezer, which went down to — 70 degrees Fahrenheit, cold enough to freeze even the fat and blubber.

Beached on Nantucket in 2002, this gigantic blunt - snouted, conical - toothed sperm whale was later stripped of its flesh and blubber.

Whales are wrapped in fat — a thick layer of blubber — as vital insulation against the cold.

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.

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.

Polar bears devour a steady stream of seal blubber, but they cope with the deluge of fat and shrug off the cholesterol that would cause heart attacks in humans.

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.

Kelp Gull harassment — they feed on skin and blubber pecked from the backs of living whales — has also increased in recent years, implicating the wounding as a potential contributing cause of the increased mortality.

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.

Circumstantial evidence links insulin resistance to visceral fat, the blubber found in bellies, but not to subcutaneous fat, which molds love handles.

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.

The crew, wearing yellow rain slickers and using long - handled knives, cuts the blubber off in yards - long strips before diving into the thoracic cavity.

More to explore Sink or Swim: Muscle versus Fat from Scientific American Blubber from National Geographic Education Is Muscle a Better Insulator than Fat in Cold and Heat?

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.

Whether they are living in cold waters near the North Pole or around Antarctica or are visiting the deep ocean, these animals» blubber is vital to their survival.

Background Mammals that have evolved to live in cold waters, such as whales, seals, sea lions and polar bears, commonly have a layer of blubber.

The blubber is evenly spread over much of their body, just as the shortening in this activity covered the surface of your finger in a thick layer.

In the summers between 1614 and 1660, Smeerenburg was a thriving settlement, with around 200 men processing blubber in seven whaling stationIn the summers between 1614 and 1660, Smeerenburg was a thriving settlement, with around 200 men processing blubber in seven whaling stationin seven whaling stations.

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.

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.

They scanned seven minke whale heads in CT and MRI machines, created computer models of the ears and surrounding soft tissue, and dissected the whale noggins to reveal ear fat running from blubber just under the skin to the ear bones.

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

That helps keep them warm in frigid waters, because these marine mammals don't produce blubber — a thick layer of fat — as do seals and walruses.

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.