Sentences with phrase «seal hunts with»

For instance, Inuit boys have been observed mimicking seal hunts with items supplied by parents, such as pieces of sealskin and miniature harpoons.

Early one morning, on a seal hunt with their friend James, a tussle turns violent, and James is killed.

Not exact matches

«Now, is that day coming with the seal hunt?

A year after losing in the play - off final against Hull, fourth - placed Sheffield Wednesday are back in the hunt for promotion after sealing their top six spot with a 1 - 0 win at Ipswich.

Kevin Reid with IDI wrote in yesterday to highlight an ongoing series of Second Life events that the International Fund for Animal Welfare is holding to try to mobilize public opinion against Arctic seal hunting.

He notes that the average Norse farmer had to balance the spring - and summertime demands of his own farm with annual communal walrus and migratory seal hunts.

«If the strict fish - eaters stick to their diet, and the groups hunting fish and seals become specialized on mammals, in time, they'll have fewer encounters with each other, and that could lead to speciation.»

AS POLAR bears roam the Arctic sea ice hunting seals, they are wasteful with their energy.

Lone Survivor is based on the best - selling memoir by Marcus Luttrell (Played in the film by Mark Wahlberg, 2 Guns) about his ordeal in 2005 as a Navy SEAL who must fight for survival with three of his fellow frogmen in the mountains of Afghanistan when their mission, dubbed Operation Red Wings, is compromised, resulting in the Taliban in the area hunting them down.

These dogs were a huge help to the natives as they were used to hunt seals, chase away polar bears and pull heavy sledges loaded with food or camp supplies.

In his book The Bond: Our Kinship with Animals, Our Call to Defend Them, HSUS president and CEO Wayne Pacelle gets at one of the core issues challenging the humane movement: If we rid the world of inhumane economic practices — be it puppy mills, whaling, the Canadian seal hunt — what will replace them?

The Aquarium staff fattens Howler up with baby seal formula, teaches him to hunt fish so he can survive in the wild and eventually releases him back to the sea.

With fine dining and antique hunting available in nearby Cambria, you are also within minutes of wine tasting in Paso Robles, hiking in Big Sur, exploring Hearst Castle and viewing the natural wonder of the Piedras Blancas elephant seal rookery.

They have their own array of video clips from the seal hunts showing injured seal pups being handled in ways that appear to be at odds with Canadian rules.

What interests me, though, is putting together the lack of ice trouble during the breeding season with the increasing trouble for the bears during the crucial late fall seal - hunting season.

Polar bears are one of the most sensitive Arctic marine mammals to climate warming because they spend most of their lives on sea ice.35 Declining sea ice in northern Alaska is associated with smaller bears, probably because of less successful hunting of seals, which are themselves ice - dependent and so are projected to decline with diminishing ice and snow cover.36, 37,38,39 Although bears can give birth to cubs on sea ice, increasing numbers of female bears now come ashore in Alaska in the summer and fall40 and den on land.41 In Hudson Bay, Canada, the most studied population in the Arctic, sea ice is now absent for three weeks longer than just a few decades ago, resulting in less body fat, reduced survival of both the youngest and oldest bears, 42 and a population now estimated to be in decline43 and projected to be in jeopardy.44 Similar polar bear population declines are projected for the Beaufort Sea region.45

Up in Alaska, it's so hot now that the traditional hunt for bearded seal last summer was cut abnormally short due to melted ice, causing the Native community there to worry about losing the ability to continue with their traditional ways of acquiring food and practicing their culture.

The region is a complex and finely balanced system, with some of the islands still recovering from industrial - scale hunting of whales, seals and penguins.

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The ban, while of relatively minor economic importance, has led to strong reactions from seal hunting nations such as Canada and Norway and the seal hunting community itself: these countries are outraged by the EU's «interference» with a business model that they see as perfectly normal.

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