We experienced some difficulty identifying whale species during the count, especially differentiating between bowhead and gray whales. |
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Arctic waters are renowned for such marine mammals as bowhead and beluga whales and ringed, spotted and bearded seals. |
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The tusked narwhal, white beluga whales and elusive bowhead whale all live off the northern part of this island. |
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Weighing upward of 60 tons and reaching lengths up to 50 feet, the bowhead whale is one of the Arctic's great mysteries. |
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This study demonstrates that bowhead whales are capable of navigating through the heavy pack ice in central Baffin Bay. |
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The three bears had been tearing into remnants of a bowhead whale, recently caught by the villagers on an authorized hunt. |
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Oil extraction will adversely affect millions of migratory waterfowl and golden eagles, as well as polar bears, caribou and bowhead whales. |
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Today the beluga whale and the bowhead whale, as well as the peary caribou populations are at risk in various parts of the Canadian north. |
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The Inuvialuit last hunted a bowhead whale in 1996, but we still have the right to harvest them if we choose. |
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The range and numbers of beluga and bowhead whales may increase or at worst hold steady. |
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The bowhead whale is a large and powerful marine mammal that can break through ice over 20 cm thick with the crown of its head. |
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There is one made from the hip of a bowhead whale with a stone placed on top of it, as though it was a head with the inuksuk in the middle of it. |
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They had a very interesting technique for going after these humongous bowhead whales. |
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In addition to noise generation, marine vessels have the potential to collide with bowhead whales resulting in severe injuries. |
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But there are still question marks over the future of populations of other species, including blue whales and bowhead whales, both hunted to the verge of extinction. |
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The study places the Eastern Arctic bowhead whale, Western arctic bowhead whale and the Eastern Hudson Bay beluga whale on the list of species facing imminent extinction. |
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Formerly hunters of Pacific sperm whale, these whaling fleets came to Arctic regions following the bowhead whale migration to the Beaufort Sea for summer feeding. |
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We don't have fruits and vegetables, but the bowhead has minerals and vitamins that provide the nutritional requirements needed to live in the Arctic environment. |
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One of the world's lesser known whales, the bowhead lives exclusively north of the Arctic Circle, spending four months or more of the year in complete darkness. |
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A final report, documenting Inuit knowledge of the population ecology and the cultural significance of bowhead whales, is progressing. |
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The lack of clear correlations between the archaeological record and the bowhead record may favour the second cause. |
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The goal of the Strategy is to promote the recovery of bowhead whale populations in Nunavut. |
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Therefore, ice edge habitat is a very important component to bowhead whales. |
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Individual interviews have now been completed in all 18 communities within the seasonal range of bowhead whales. |
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However, the 2013 results of DNA analysis of those fossil bones revealed that they were in fact those of the bowhead whale. |
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Options include the old hand harpoon as it was used traditionally, or a modified version with a grenade on the tip like the ones used in the Alaskan bowhead hunt. |
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She's been visiting Greenland for 30 years and this is her first sighting of a bowhead whale. |
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Functional morphology of the mouth of the bowhead whale and its implications for conservation. |
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Alan Hovhaness' orchestra And God Created Great Whales including the recorded sounds of humpback and bowhead whales. |
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The bowhead whale has neither teeth, nor ear plug. Consequently, researchers had to develop another method, this one based on the gradual transformation of aspartic acid in the lenses of their eyes. |
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The bowhead whales in the proposed MWA site of Igaliqtuuq on the east coast of Baffin Island are part of the endangered arctic population of bowheads. |
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Skin samples taken from various whale species including narwhal, beluga and bowhead are taken by aboriginal hunters via nonlethal sample harpoons. |
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Several vessels returned in 1874 but the bowhead catch was so poor that season that they again deserted the area for the rest of the decade. |
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The two species of whale from which muktuk is most often sliced are the bowhead and the beluga, or white whale. |
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This is home to wildlife found nowhere else in the US: polar bears, seals, bowhead whales and numerous fish, plus birds, such as the king eider and gyrfalcon. |
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So has the bureaucracy involved in getting over 35 permits, at least two of which the company has yet to secure. Shell's research is focused on species that the Eskimos hunt, including bowhead whale. |
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We have the northern right whales and the bowhead whales in the Arctic. |
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Between 1849 and 1900, American whaleships hunted bowhead whales in the bay. |
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Canada's marine wildlife numbers in the thousands of species including orcas, polar bears, walrus, sea otters, and bowhead whales, which live for more than 200 years. |
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Fisheries and Oceans developed draft fishery management plans for the harvest of one bowhead whale in the Nunavut Settlement Area in 1996 and the continuation of the pilot sport hunt for walrus in the North Foxe Basin. |
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Cetaceans such as bowhead whales, gray whales, and belugas can be seen close to shore. |
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Reaching up to 65 feet in length and up to 100 tons in weight, the bowhead whale is a baleen whale that lives in Arctic and sub-Arctic waters. |
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The main goal of the October 14 meeting was to evaluate quotas for the hunting of bowhead whales in the Bering, Chukchi and Beaufort seas by aboriginal populations. |
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The DFO chose to dismiss both resolutions, arguing that the hunt poses no threat to the two populations of bowhead whales, which number only 150 individuals in the Hudson's Bay stock and 350 in the Davis Strait stock. |
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A single bowhead whale provided a year's worth of food and oil for a couple of hundred Inupiat, which led to the establishment of permanent villages. |
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And they point out that the US, fierce upholder of the 1983 moratorium, undermines its moral position by allowing indigenous Inuit to hunt bowhead whales in the Arctic. |
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A long record of carbon isotopes, which is reflective of primary production trends of the Bering Sea, exists from historical samples of bowhead whale baleen. |
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Instead, sloops concentrated on Nantucket Shoals, where they would have taken right whales or went to the Davis Strait region to catch bowhead whales. |
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But, in the high Arctic, the Inuit were forced to abandon their hunting and whaling sites as bowhead whales disappeared from Canada and Greenland. |
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Bowhead whales feed on crustacean zooplankton, primarily large copepods of the genus Calanus and euphausiids. |
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Brian has concentrated on the ecological diversity of the region, with its rare flowers, walruses, Bowhead whales, bearded seals, Polar bears and sea birds. |
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Right whales' habitat can be affected dramatically by climate changes along with Bowhead whales. |
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Several sightings in the area made in the 1970s may or may not be of right whales, as the critically endangered population of Bowhead whales are also present in the area. |
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