Sentences with phrase «with bowhead»

I did this once with walrus where we attached a camera to the tusk of the animal, another time with the bowhead whale using a suction cup attaching a camera to the back of the whale, and yet again more recently with my 3D Polar Bear film attaching a camera to a female polar bear.

He exposes a world none of us ever sees: we are face to face with a bowhead whale, a newborn walrus pup, the very pupil of the eye of a macaroni penguin.

But with bowheads, which are slowly recovering from intense whaling in the 19th century, conservations groups would be highly motivated to buy all the shares for 13 years, until the population grows to the carrying capacity.

Not exact matches

Together with still images and a skin biopsy, the researchers conclude that these bowhead whales use rocks to rub away sloughing and molting skin, they report today in PLOS ONE.

Ice Whale is yet another epic nature adventure set in northern Alaska, but this one unfolds with a surprising twist: It alternates between voices of Eskimos and a bowhead whale, and chapters featuring the whale include squiggly symbols, invented by George to represent whale sounds.

With Alaska no longer the profitable endeavor, the foreign invaders left, leaving the bowhead whale, the walrus, and the caribou in a state of near extinction.

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.

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Fin whales, bowhead whales, bairds whales and even sperm whales have also been spotted off Alaskan waters, but to not appear with the same regularity as blue, grey and humpback whales.

The Bowhead can live deep into a second century if unmolested, it has a gorgeous seven - octave song, and is a keen listener (Cornell's Chris Clark recorded 35,000 vocalizations during spring migration in 1985, with only 19 overlaps!).

Bears with hair section δ15N values at or above the mean spent no time near bowhead whale bone piles and less than half of the year nearshore.

An isotopic mixing model estimation of diet proportions determined that bowhead whale comprised approximately 50 — 70 % of fall diet for bears with lower hair δ15N values.

The analysis of individual bowhead whale stomach contents revealed the broad foraging spectrum of bowhead whales including a dominant contribution of the epibenthic mysid species, Mysis oculata, along with arctic copepods Metridia longa and Calanus spp. and the amphipod Themisto spp. and Onisimus spp. (Pomerleau et al. 2011b).

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.

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.