Sentences with phrase «of bowhead»

The subsequent decline of bowhead abundances in the CAA is consistent with the abandonment of the high Arctic of Canada and Greenland by bowhead hunters, while Thule living in more southern Arctic regions increasingly focused on alternate food resources.

The proportional contribution of various food sources (zooplankton) to the diet of bowhead whales was determined using a Bayesian stable isotope mixing model (SIAR; Parnell et al. 2008).

The analysis of individual bowhead whale stomach contents revealed the broad foraging spectrum of bowhead whales including a dominant contribution of the epibenthic mysid species, Mysis oculata, along with arctic copepods Metridia longa and Calanus spp. and the amphipod Themisto spp. and Onisimus spp. (Pomerleau et al. 2011b).

We hypothesized that lower hair δ15N values were due to the consumption of bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) tissue.

Offshore, pods of bowhead whales are still hunted by Alaska Natives.

It sounds almost exactly like the song of the bowhead whale, a rarely encountered denizen of arctic seas.

# 52 Historic evidence may be found in the DNA of Bowhead whales.

When they first arrived the ships had to part rafts of bowhead whales just to move through the fjords, but by 1700, they were nearly all gone.

[In response to MrPete's] # 52 Historic evidence may be found in the DNA of Bowhead whales.

I suggest Dyson to check out the history of Bowhead whalers (17th to 20th centuries), never going from Alaska to Greenland chasing their prey.

Pods of bowhead whales slipping through the sea.

Rhea Mehta, Ph.D., is a molecular toxicologist, integrative health coach, and CEO of Bowhead Health, a health care startup on a mission to remove the pain points and inefficiencies of...

Anderung C, Danise S, Glover AG, Higgs ND, Jonsson L, Sabin R, Dahlgren TG (2014) A Swedish subfossil find of a bowhead whale from the late Pleistocene: shore displacement, paleoecology in south - west Sweden and the identity of the Swedenborg whale (Balaena swedenborgii Liljeborg, 1867).

A 2011 study found that the rendered oils of bowhead whale, seals and walrus contained PCB concentrations of 193 to 421 parts per billion.

In 2004, during an aerial survey of bowhead whales in the Beaufort Sea north of Alaska, Monnett and his colleague Jeffrey Gleason observed four dead polar bears.

The story of the bowhead whale is shaming.

At the other extreme, some specimens of bowhead whale appear to be more than 120 years old, judging from the age of harpoons lodged in their flesh.

Not exact matches

Bowhead whales are some of the largest animals alive.

An open North - West Passage may be good news for bowheads, which will have more places to feed, but many Inuit will struggle, since they rely on walruses that are running out of sea ice on which to breed.

The two bowheads were tagged by Mads Peter Heide - Jørgensen of the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources in Nuuk and his colleagues.

Biologists also built on Iñupiaq observations to learn that bowheads possess a sense of smell, unlike most other whales.

«I have never had the slightest indication that he has any bias of any kind,» says Phillip Clapham of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Marine Mammal Laboratory in Seattle, which collaborated on the bowhead whale survey.

The four right whale species live in distinct locations: around 300 Atlantic Northern Right Whales live in the North Atlantic; approximately 200 Pacific Northern Right Whales live in the North Pacific; about 7,500 Southern Right Whales are spread throughout the southern part of the Southern Hemisphere; and 8,000 — 9,200 Bowhead Whales are distributed entirely in the Arctic Ocean.

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.

But over the past decades, the melt season has grown longer and the average extent of Arctic sea ice has diminished, changing the game for many Arctic marine mammals — namely beluga, narwhal and bowhead whales; ringed, bearded, spotted, ribbon, harp and hooded seals; walruses; and polar bears.

They examined the dynamics for three kinds of whales: minkes, bowheads, and gray whales.

To learn the secret behind aging gracefully, you may want to check out the bowhead whale, the majestic denizen of the Arctic waters that boasts a lifespan topping 200 years.

The Bowhead Whale, also known as Greenland Right Whale or Arctic Whale, is a marine mammal of the order Cetacea.

«Bowhead whales weigh between 50 and 100 tons when fully grown and have probably 1,000 times as many cells as humans, but they apparently have a anti-tumor response at the cell level that is far more efficient than what is found in humans,» said biologist Mads Peter Heide - Jørgensen of the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources and the University of Copenhagen.

Insights into the evolution of longevity from the bowhead whale genome.

But the whales seem to get sick of their songs relatively quickly as each song was only sung Read more about Bowhead whales prolific composers - Scimex

What is clear is that redox - insulin axis is better in bowhead whales and that transcriptome study showed they have better vascular endothelial function and thus, lower arterial collagen ECM stiffening (by reduced crosslinks and AGEs glycation / glycoxidation of their vasculature:

This means no diabetes in Bowhead whales, obviously since diabetes is accelerated aging of the ECM, such as species pentosidine accrual age curves show and same thing for crosslinks like glucosepane.

The Arctic Ocean's sea ice and waters are habitat for many imperiled species, from polar bears to bowhead whales — and they all face the threat of dirty fossil - fuel development.

Gentle giants of the sea, bowhead whales live in the coldest, most remote reaches of the world's oceans.

Bowhead whales live in the Arctic all year round, and their movements are influenced by the freezing and melting of sea ice.

He exposes a world none of us ever sees: we are face to face with a bowhead whale, a newborn walrus pup, the very pupil of the eye of a macaroni penguin.

Ice Whale is yet another epic nature adventure set in northern Alaska, but this one unfolds with a surprising twist: It alternates between voices of Eskimos and a bowhead whale, and chapters featuring the whale include squiggly symbols, invented by George to represent whale sounds.

With Alaska no longer the profitable endeavor, the foreign invaders left, leaving the bowhead whale, the walrus, and the caribou in a state of near extinction.

The IWC Bowhead, Right and Gray Whale subcommittee in 2011 reiterated the conservation risk to western gray whales is large because of the small size of the population and the potential anthropogenic impacts.

During the same period, vessels targeting right and bowhead whales in the Gulf of Alaska, Sea of Okhotsk, and the Western Arctic would take the odd gray whale if neither of the more desirable two species were in sight.

But after reports that someone doing an aerial survey for bowhead whales in Alaskan waters spotted around 10 bears swimming well offshore, the World Wildlife Fund distributed an unrelated picture (above) of a swimming bear, taken earlier this month, to drive home the idea that melting ice is making times tough up north.

I did this once with walrus where we attached a camera to the tusk of the animal, another time with the bowhead whale using a suction cup attaching a camera to the back of the whale, and yet again more recently with my 3D Polar Bear film attaching a camera to a female polar bear.

The author led two expeditions to study, film and record the Bowhead whale in the 1970s (Film Board of Canada made a documentary of the second & American Scientist published a cover article on the first), is co-discoverer of Songs of Humpback Whale, Science, 1971) and served on US delegation to International Whaling Commission for six years.

Consider for a moment, the Bowhead or Greenland Right whale, dubbed Monarch of the Seas by Melville.

An oil spill could devastate endangered species like polar bears and bowhead whales, destroy habitat for millions of migratory birds, and jeopardize the subsistence - based Inupiat culture.

Scott McVay, a pioneer in the study of whale vocalizations, wrote to express his concerns that the article didn't get in the vantage point of the species perhaps more at risk — the ancient bowhead whale.

Exploratory drilling will occur just north of the western edge of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in the Beaufort Sea, home to bowhead and beluga whales, seals, walruses, polar bears, and a wide variety of migrating birds.

Using the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, Obama blocked drilling in large portions of the Chukchi and Beaufort seas in the Arctic, home to several endangered species, including the bowhead whale, fin whale, Pacific walrus, and polar bear.

Drilling and fuel shipping have also increased the chances of oil spills, which would affect the bowhead and other whales, seals, and walruses in the Bering Straight as well as the 12 million birds that nest and forage in the area every year.