Sentences with phrase «of whale»

For example, very little pig and human myoglobin could be made in the cell - free system, which yielded 10 - to 20-fold higher amounts of whale and mutant myoglobins.

You're guilty, if you don't read Reflections of a Whale Watcher (Indiana University Press, # 27.50 hbk, # 4.99 pbk, ISBN 0 25320 957 9)-- you don't care.

Catch - limit models have been run for several of the whale populations currently being hunted — such as the western North Pacific Bryde's whales and the North Atlantic common minke whales.

«Enlisting citizens to participate in science has helped us uncover several mysteries of the whale shark.

Thewissen uncovered some isolated fossil whale astragali a few years ago, but those bones were fragmentary and showed a puzzling combination of whale and artiodactyl features.

She means a scar — probably from a propeller or boat strike — somewhere along the peduncle, a part of whale anatomy reaching from the tail fluke to the midback.

Any glimpse of whale, in calving or feeding grounds or anywhere, is photographed and given a catalog number.

Researchers from The University of Western Australia and Australian Institute of Marine Science, (AIMS) and collaborators across the Indian Ocean have completed a huge photo - identification study to assess the seasonal habits of whale sharks in the tropics.

In the future, genetic analyses can greatly increase researchers» still very limited understanding of whale shark ecology and the status of what appears for now to be at least 2 populations.

Dives among groups of whale sharks feeding around the bagans offer adventurous eco-tourists an unforgettable experience, while providing vital and sustainable income to local people.

«This effort is increasing our knowledge of whale shark abundance and geographic range, trends in site fidelity and frequency,» explained the study's lead author and Director of ECOCEAN Inc..

To address this challenge, researchers harnessed modern technology, creating an online photo database called Wildbook for Whale Sharks and enlisted the help of ecotourists and citizens across the globe to upload any images of whale sharks they happened to see or encounter anywhere in the world.

Finally, a broader analysis of the environmental variables in the aggregation sites can inform the long - term impacts of climate change in the movement of the whale sharks.

A scientist runs a portable tag reader along the side of a whale shark in search of a PIT tag.

But the skull of a previously unknown species of whale suggests alternatively that they started filter feeding by adapting teeth to act as sieves.

«The future of these dolphins would appear to be as secure as any population of any species can be in this era of climate change,» says the study's lead author, Mike Bossley of Whale and Dolphin Conservation Australasia in Port Adelaide, who has studied the area's dolphins for 25 years.

Even so, the mercury content of whale meat is considerably lower than that of the hypertoxic Minamata fish.

Also, it contained satisfying amounts of whale oil and baleen, the keratin fringes and fronds that span its huge mouth and filter seawater, and that were, confusingly, sold as «whalebone,» a substance so essential and ubiquitous it was the nineteenth century plastic.

And naturally, any explanation of whale backbones — another object of his scientific enthusiasms — would be incomplete without toys from his childhood toy chest stored beneath his office desk.

The computer compared the genetic sequence to the database of whale species curated by the Marine Mammal Genetics Group and quickly identified the prey: a pygmy sperm whale.

In the largest study on the genetics of whale sharks conducted to date, researchers found that the world's biggest fish likely exist in 2 distinct populations with minimal connectivity between the Indo - Pacific and the Atlantic Ocean.

To protect whale sharks from this harm, the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC) adopted a resolution, by consensus, in 2013 prohibiting the placement of a purse seine net around whale sharks and requiring the release of whale sharks unharmed in the event that they are inadvertently encircled by a net.

Scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and colleagues from the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries report on the movements of whale sharks tagged at the site in a study published July 30, 2014, in the journal PLOS ONE.

International research involving Monash biologists has provided new insights into how the feeding habits of the whale — the biggest animal — have evolved.

«The sheer amount of organic matter that is made available is astonishing,» says deep - sea ecologist Paulo Y. G. Sumida at the University of São Paulo in São Paulo, Brazil, who studies the ecological role of whale carcasses.

The Wildbook for Whale Sharks photo - identification library is a visual database of whale shark (Rhincodon typus) encounters and of individually catalogued whale sharks.

«Amazon and Google have stopped all sales or advertisements of whale, dolphin and ivory through their Japanese e-commerce sites, and Rakuten must do the same,» the EIA said.

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.

Combining data from these tags with measurements of whale jaws from museum specimens, the team modeled the drag experienced by the whale as it performs its complex underwater acrobatics.

Directly to the right of the whale's «head» is the brightest region visible on the planet, which is roughly 990 miles (1,600 kilometers) across.

We have not had a sighting dead or alive of that whale ever since.

«The reduction of whale carcasses during the age of commercial whaling may have caused some of the earliest human - caused extinctions in the ocean,» writes the study's first author, conservation biologist Joe Roman of the University of Vermont in Burlington, in an e-mail.

Among the issues these committees were asked to look into this year were the possible dangers of whale watching, the effects of chemical pollution on whales, how the IWC might protect dolphins, porpoises and other small cetaceans, and whether subsistence whaling by indigenous peoples should be subject to scientific management.

Besides fossil bones of the skull and mandibles, the rock containing the skeleton showed perfect casts of the whale baleen.

All living whales belong to one of two branches of the whale tree — toothed or baleen.

It is associated with the social aspects of whale life and probably serves in communication

Investigators first found the worms, which were living in and thriving off of whale carcasses, 10 years ago.

Even some members of the commission's scientific committee, which tracks the health and populations of whale species worldwide, opposed the proposal, saying it undercut the committee's work, which included calculations of how many whales could be caught.

And it ended in the oceans in the wake of whale and other mammal hunting in the industrial era of humans.

At the alternate extremes, the mtDNA of small rodents diverges rather briskly, at around 5 per cent per million years, while that of whale species — such as the fin and humpback — has diverged at a mere half per cent per million years.

They hunted and slaughtered protected species of whale, such as blues and humpbacks.

British biologist Andrew Foote at the University of Durham recently discovered that the calls of killer whales off the West Coast of the United States have lengthened significantly in recent years, apparently to counter engine noise from the growing fleet of whale - watching boats.

Bottom side - rolling is more than just an interesting bit of whale behavior.

Researchers saw dining in progress and lowered a GoPro camera on a pole for an underwater view of the whale swooping by.

The study provides important data for teams evaluating the risks and benefits of whale disentanglements.

This work has implications beyond identifying the boundaries of whale stocks.

«Some entanglements have very low drag, for example if a whale is towing 10 meters of rope, which is basically the length of the whale itself,» van der Hoop said.

(The author of Whale is a conservation biologist; the author of Falcon is a research fellow at the University of Cambridge as well as a falconer.)

He proposes that the diversity must have narrowed in the course of whale evolution as mtDNA «hitchhiked» on the success of behaviors passed from older females to calves, such as feeding techniques, methods for fending off predators, and baby - sitting.

Pyenson had already surveyed living whale proportions and determined that the size of the whale correlated with the width of its cheek bones.