Sentences with phrase «on bowheads»

Killer whales, which have been seen preying on bowheads in the gulf, also occur here.

«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.

Killer whales are known to prey on bowhead, seals, narwhal and beluga.

Previously, Matthew was a PACE (Postdocs Advancing Climate Expertise) Fellow at NSIDC where he collaborated with Alaska's North Slope Borough to investigate the impacts of Arctic sea ice loss on bowhead whales.

People I spoke to said that many community members oppose offshore drilling because they know it threatens their dependence on bowhead whales and seals.

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Laidre's team looked at what is known about marine mammal populations that play a key role in Arctic ecosystems and human communities, focusing on polar bears, beluga whales, narwhals, bowhead whales, walrus, and six different seal species.

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.

Native hunters must take their boats farther out on the sea, under more dangerous conditions, to capture bowhead whales.

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

Learning from Inuit hunters that killer whales use specific methods to hunt bowheads, beluga, narwhal and seals, Ferguson discovered at least two different killer whale groups based on prey preferences.

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.

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Some Alaska Native peoples continue by tradition to hunt bowhead and beluga whales on a subsistence level, with low annual bowhead total quotas set by the International Whaling Commission in conjunction with individual village limits set by the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission.

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.

Many Arctic species that are on the front line of climate change, such as seals, walruses, and bowhead and beluga whales, are also part of the Native traditional diet.

Bowhead whales strongly depend on large arctic calanoid copepods (C. hyperboreus, C. glacialis, M. longa and Paraeuchaeta spp.), mysids, euphausids and chaetognaths (Pomerleau et al., unpublished data).

A. Several whale populations are indisputably endangered, including western gray whales (eastern gray whales, which are the population of gray whales found on the Pacific coast of North America, are no longer considered endangered), eastern bowhead whales, North Atlantic and Pacific right whales, blue whales, and most humpback whales.

Bowhead whales are assumed to feed on pelagic and epibenthic zooplankton in late summer and fall (Finley 2001; Lowry et al. 2004; Pomerleau et al. 2011b), and on pre-ascending diapausing calanoid copepods in late winter and early spring, based on data from Disko Bay, Greenland (Heide - Jørgensen et al. 2012; Laidre et al. 2007).

The IWC has imposed a moratorium on the hunting of 10 species of whales (blue, bowhead, fin, gray, humpback, minke, pygmy right, right, sei, and sperm), and that moratorium only applies to nations who are members of the IWC and have not formally objected to the ban.

Huntington's research activities include reviewing the regulation of subsistence hunting in northern Alaska, documenting traditional ecological knowledge of beluga whales and bowhead whales, examining Iñupiat Eskimo and Inuit knowledge and use of sea ice, and assessing the impacts of climate change on Arctic communities and Arctic marine mammals.

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.

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