Sentences with phrase «of whale blubber»

Gulls flocked to find remnants of whale blubber, called maktak, and 50 yards away, the ocean gently rocked against the course black sandy shoreline, which is not much of a beach anymore with the rising waters from warming oceans and melting ice.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

So heavy are they that strips of blubber are cut by them from the back of the hapless whale.»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

They also prefer to feed on the rich blubber of whales and seals, so whale sharks might be less appetising to them.

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.

They also took skin and blubber biopsies which helps with determining the gender of the whales along with what they have been eating.

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.

And they keep their body heat even without an insulating layer of blubber like whales, seals and sea lions.

Looking at whales, their blubber has high levels of PCBs, sometimes at such high levels that their bodies are considered hazardous waste when they die.

For instance, the posterior, dorsal blubber of a sperm whale is 25 % carbohydrates.

On this forum they talk about Inuit people in the past subsisting off of cooked and raw meats, organs, and a ton of fats (think whale blubber) and not much else (no gardens in the extreme North!)

Also, why did traditional Eskimo populations, consuming up to 75 % of their total caloric intake from fat (mostly from whale blubber, seal fat, organ meats, and cold water fish), display superior health and longevity without heart disease or obesity?

Some Inuit have survived long periods entirely on meat, attaining vitamin C in muktuk, the skin and blubber of whales.

Eskimos traditionally consumed a diet of mostly whale blubber.

Although the Greenland Inuit are the world's heaviest cigarette smokers and although their consumption of fruits and vegetables has been virtually zero until recently and although they add lots of salt when they eat their fish, seal meat / blubber, and whale meat / blubber, the Greenland Inuit have only half the age - adjusted total cancer death rate of Americans and cardiovascular disease is virtually nonexistent among the Greenland Inuit: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9447397

Chase's authority over the crew of the Essex, as they set upon sail for whale blubber, undermines George Pollard's power, creating conflict that sees the ship endure unnecessary storm hardship.

In the Arctic, dogs were fed mostly fish and whale blubber; in the southern United States, a dog's diet consisted mainly of cornbread; in Europe, potatoes were the main fare.

Sibes do not have the digestive system to cope with cereal based foods as originally their main source of food was fish, seal - meat and whale blubber.

Shore station where whale blubber was boiled down for the oil in the 1850s and 1860s, halfway out on the inner beach of Ballast Point

The blue whale was too swift and powerful for the 19th century whalers to hunt, but with the arrival of harpoon cannons, they became a much sought after species for their large amounts of blubber.

Every year, more than 2,000 whales of varying species are killed for their blubber and meat.

That whale blubber was a massive industry that also provided jobs, innovation, progress — all the hallmarks of today's enviro — dogma..

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.»

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.

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.

While researchers have known for awhile now that the blubber of these animals contain toxins, they're now seeing the those whales and dolphins living near urban areas have higher concentrations.

Now, the blubber of dolphins and whales are packed with PCBs, flame retardants and even DDT, all of which have been linked to cancer, neurological damage, reproductive harm and other problems.