Sentences with phrase «seal blubber»

May 8, 2014 • Baby polar bears slurp milk that's 27 percent fat, and adults dine on seal blubber.

They remain intact and — thanks to the cold, dry Antarctic climate — remarkably well preserved, down to the chocolate bars, seal blubber, and dog biscuits carried by these early explorers.

Polar bears devour a steady stream of seal blubber, but they cope with the deluge of fat and shrug off the cholesterol that would cause heart attacks in humans.

Our breast milk could not have evolved to be the perfect complement to all traditional diets around the world — these could range from plants, insects, game meat, grain crops, seal blubber, fish — you get the picture.

Inuit babies can, however, look forward to being weaned on seaweed, nuk - tuk (seal blubber) and caribou meat.

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Hey Canada... what's with all the references to whale blubber, seal meat, igloos and ice flows?

You can be sure, however, that Atkins devotees aren't routinely eating seal and whale blubber.

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.

Fat can make up 50 % of their body weight; the blubber - laden seals they eat make bacon look downright healthy.

Immediately I understand the discomfort that a seal or a penguin, insulated by blubber, must feel on a warm day.

That helps keep them warm in frigid waters, because these marine mammals don't produce blubber — a thick layer of fat — as do seals and walruses.

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

This morning's video - of - the - day Chicken's Fate is Sealed documents the meat industry's attempts to lower the arachidonic acid level in chicken muscles through genetic manipulation and the egg industry's attempts to lower arachidonic acid levels in hens by feeding hens blubber from baby harp seal pups clubbed to death in the Canadian seal hunt.

In some instances, fish oil is extracted from seal or whale blubber.5

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?

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

Russian fur traders arrived in the early 1800s and exploited resources such as blubber from fur seals and pelts from sea lions.

Starvation and freezing to death were always possibilities; hunters left the villages to travel to the Arctic Coast, searching for seals for meat, skins, and blubber to fuel their life - saving fires.

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.

We learned that the seals were hunted for their blubber in the 19th century to the point of near - extinction.

Going into the autumn the seal will be insulated by a 5 cm (2 in) thick layer of blubber, giving them a fat percentage of between 40 and 50 %.

Fossil records show that northern elephant seals have been around for millions of years, yet by the end of the 19th century, experts say there were only about 100 seals left as a result of over-hunting by humans, who harvested the animals» valuable blubber in order to make oil.

Organochlorine pesticides, polychlorinated biphenyls, and butyltin compounds in blubber and livers of stranded California sea lions, elephant seals, and harbor seals from coastal California, USA.

The pinnipeds — seals, sea lions, and walruses — tend to be immense blobs of muscle and blubber.