There's one personal harrowing moment when he's thrust inside a hollowed out whale carcass to extract
more blubber, but that's the only personal perspective offered through young Tom.
Not exact matches
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?
The southern sea otter, which lacks
blubber, has particularly dense fur, with approximately 1 million hairs per square inch (6.5 square centimeters),
more than any other known animal.
(The latter is pretty unconvincing as a vulgar cad,
more convincing as a
blubbering, terrified lab experiment.)
It's Me, Margaret;
Blubber; Just as Long as We're Together; and the five book series... (
more)
(ref)
More importantly, many of us do not realize that fat is not just
blubber; it is a living organ that secretes compounds called adipokines that directly affect your cat's pancreas and health.
Every year,
more than 2,000 whales of varying species are killed for their
blubber and meat.
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.»
Iceland imported eight tonnes of minke whale meat and
blubber from Norway in two shipments in 2002, under their respective CITES reservations; Icland illegally exported 2.7 tons of whale oil to Belarus in 2006 and 2010 and 259 kg of whale meat to Latvia in 2010; Iceland exported 846,046 kg of «frozen whale meat and other products to Japan since 2008 (
more than 90 percent in 2010) under their respective CITES reservations; Iceland has exported eight separate shipments of whale oil to Norway since 2008, totaling 708 kilograms, under their respective CITES reservations; Iceland has exported 1309 kilograms of whale meat to the Faroe Islands, a non-party to CITES.