(1) The relative importance of migrating eels and suspended particulate material (biotic and abiotic) as transporters of mirex from Lake Ontario to the St. Lawrence River Estuary is evaluated in the context of a possible adverse impact on the St. Lawrence beluga population.
(2) General cytological and ultrastructural features of cells found in the peripheral blood of three captive beluga whales (Delphinapterus leucas) are described.
(3) Bovine thyroid stimulating hormone administered to three beluga whales, Delphinapterus leucas, was effective in producing an increase in circulating levels of triiodothyronine and thyroxine.
(4) Normal values and ranges for 31 clinical hematology and serum chemistry tests are reported for the beluga or white whale (Delphinapterus leucas).
(5) The resulting audiogram showed hearing sensitivities below 64 kHz similar to those of belugas (Delphinapterus leucas) and Atlantic bottlenosed dolphins (Tursiops truncatus).
(6) One day a fellow expat's son, on seeing us pile sparkling mounds of tiny black eggs onto blinis, asked "Is that the beluga or the sevruga, cos I only like the sevruga."
(7) The guests order from the bar menu – beef sliders for £21, £770 for a 50g portion of beluga caviar.
(8) The discovery of Toxoplasma gondii in the marine mammals has led researchers to issue a public health warning to Inuit populations who eat beluga whalemeat in dried strips and stews.
(9) The pattern of PCB congeners found in beluga (Delphinapterus leucas) whale tissues is similar to the PCB pattern found in the St. Lawrence estuary MTZ biota.
(10) The heart of the beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas) is described from the dissection of seven specimens.
(11) times per year, the most frequent being caribou (145, mean), beluga whale (74), hares (35), muskrat (26), whitefish (52), cisco (39), burbot (38), inconnu (37), Arctic charr (31), geese (44) ducks (19), ptamigan (18), cloudberries (22), cranberries (20) and blueberries (18).
(12) A similar decrease in sensitivity occurs at 32 kHz in the killer whale, at 50 kHz in the Amazon River dolphin, at 120 kHz in the beluga, at 140 kHz in the bottlenosed dolphin, and at 140 kHz in the harbor porpoise.
(13) During an echolocation-in-noise experiment we suspected that a beluga (Delphinapterus leucas) was using a surface-reflected path to maximize detection performance.
(14) Angela Kim, via GuardianWitness Serves 2 as a main dish, or 4 as a starter 200g black beluga lentils, rinsed 480ml water ¾ tsp salt 60g watercress 5 mint leaves, shredded 1 avocado, sliced For the dressing: Zest of ½ orange, plus 60ml orange juice (about 1 orange) Juice of 1 pink grapefruit (about 120ml) 2 tbsp lemon juice 1 tsp maple syrup or honey ½ garlic clove, germ (sprout) removed 80ml fruity olive oil 1 tsp salt 1 Combine the lentils, water and salt in a medium pan.
(15) Like the zoo, though, it has an enormous number of animals who don't belong anywhere near Illinois: a giant octopus, frogfish , beluga whales , a blue iguana , and, of course, sharks .
(16) The statement outlines how marine mammals are also found in abundance in the region including polar bears, narwhals, beluga whales and blowhead whales while migratory birds include snow geese, rough-legged hawks and gyro-falcons.
(17) The arteries and veins of the heart of the beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas) are described from the dissection of nine specimens.
(18) Masked tonal thresholds were measured for a beluga whale at one noise level and 32 frequencies between 40 Hz and 115 kHz.
(19) Normal values such as these provide an important data base from which to detect diagnostically important changes in health status for belugas in a zoological setting.
(20) In beluga the relative duration of the period between the insemination and the appearance of the 1st cleavage furrow on the egg surface and the relative duration of the second half of embryogenesis (from the formation of heart rudiment till the hatching of single larvae) are somewhat less.
Cetacean
Definition:
(n.) One of the Cetacea.
Example Sentences:
(1) Wildlife campaigners say they oppose the keeping of cetaceans in captivity because these animals tend to have poor health and suffer stress-related illnesses as a result.
(2) We offer anatomical evidence for a two layer arterio-venous countercurrent heat exchanger at the cetacean testis.
(3) The Institute of Cetacean Research, a quasi-governmental body that oversees the hunts, had hoped to use sales from the meat to cover the costs of the whaling fleet's expeditions, she said.
(4) At the same time, cetaceans are under threat from a variety of pressures including direct and indirect takes, pollution, and competition for habitat and prey.
(5) Gross compositional data for milk samples of Tursiops truncatus, Sousa plumbea and Delphinus delphis are presented and compared with existing cetacean milk values.
(6) "We are totally against [weakening the original resolution]," said Aimee Leslie, WWF's global cetacean and marine turtle manager.
(7) This unit, which characterizes all delphinids, shows stringent hybridization homology with a 1,740-bp repeat that is characteristic of all other cetacean families.
(8) The Institute of Cetacean Research blamed low demand on the complicated auction procedure and reluctance among food suppliers to attract criticism from anti-whaling groups such as Sea Shepherd .
(9) "For 2013, the catch limits allow the slaughter of 16,655 small cetaceans, but our analysis of available scientific data raises very serious concerns about the sustainability of these hunts."
(10) The lipid components of porpoise lipokeratinocytes appear to subserve not only barrier function in a hypertonic milieu, but also underlie the unique buoyancy, streamlining, insulatory, and caloric properties exhibited as adaptations to the cetacean habitat.
(11) Parasites from 5 species of cetaceans are reported along with their possible role as a contributing factor in stranding behavior.
(12) Pontoporia is less specialized in its shoulder anatomy that most delphinid cetaceans, and shares several characteristics with some mysticetes.
(13) The tandemly organized common cetacean component, which comprises a large portion of all cetacean--both odontocete (toothed whale) and mysticete (whalebone whale)--genomes has a repeat length of 1,760 bp and the three clones analysed showed a high degree of conformity.
(14) Seventeen specimens representing nine cetacean genera (Delphinus, Stenella, Tursiops, Grampus, Delphinapterus, Globicephala, Kogia, Mesoplodon, and Phocoena) were studied post mortem.
(15) The sequence difference between human and the whale and human and the cow was at the same level, indicating that the rate of evolution of the mtDNA rRNA genes is about the same in artiodactyls and cetaceans.
(16) As air breathers that are inseparably tied to the surface, cetaceans are highly trackable; they may thus help in the monitoring of habitat degradation and other long-term ecologic change.
(17) Our observations indicate that these RIAs can reliably detect serum FSH and LH from bottlenosed dolphins and represent the first quantitation of these hormones in cetaceans.
(18) We sequenced the mitochondrial DNA D-loop regions from two cetacean species and compared these with the published D-loop sequences of several other mammalian species, including one other cetacean.
(19) The predominant cell of cetacean epidermis, not found in normal terrestrial mammals, is a lipokeratinocyte, which elaborates not only keratin filaments, but also two types of lipid organelles: first, lamellar bodies, morphologically identical to those of terrestrial mammals, are elaborated in great abundance in all suprabasal epidermal layers, forming intercellular lipid bilayers in the stratum corneum interstices: and second, non-membrane-bounded droplets appear and persist in all epidermal layers.
(20) I do not believe that scientific studies of whales (or any cetacean species) must be lethal in order to be effective for management and conservation of the species.