Sentences with phrase «of bowhead whales»

Pods of bowhead whales slipping through the sea.

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

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.

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.

The story of the bowhead whale is shaming.

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

Each autumn, polar bears and grizzly bears are drawn to Kaktovik, Alaska, to dine on the rotting carcasses of bowhead whales.

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).

The external eye anatomy of the bowhead whale shows a small palpebral fissure and thick and fleshy palpebra with a thick overlaying epidermis that protects the whales» eyes from the extreme arctic environmental conditions, allowing them to maintain vision throughout their long lives.

This true tale of a whaling disaster averted begins in late spring 1871, when 1,219 men, women and children sailed in 39 whaling ships to the Arctic in pursuit of the bowhead whale.

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.

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

«Tension at the Edge of Alaska (Dec. 4) is written solely from the viewpoint of Royal Dutch Shell which is determined to exploit the oil reserves off Alaska's coast and the Beaufort Sea (the destination of the Bowhead whales» spring migration) and the Inupiat or Eskimos, who want not only to take 60 Bowheads a year but continue to receive oil revenues now flowing at $ 200 million a year.

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

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).

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 decreasing trend in arctic sea ice extent and quality (Gagnon and Gough 2005) is expected to have profound effects on habitat use and movement patterns of bowhead whales, as well as other species including their predators (killer whales).

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

For, example, Alaskan polar bears can be attracted to the remains of bowhead whales killed by humans, and the number of bowhead whales that Alaskan natives are allowed to kill each year increased twice during the USGS study.