(n.) The great Arctic or Greenland whale. (Balaena mysticetus). See Baleen, and Whale.
Example Sentences:
(1) But Shell's exploration activity in the Beaufort Sea was halted when the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that seismic testing would harm noise-sensitive bowhead whales and the indigenous communities that harvest them.
(2) A fractured right mandible with midlength nonunion and oral lesions were noted in a subsistence-harvested female bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) near Wainwright, Alaska (USA).
(3) The behavioral reactions of bowhead whales to distant seismic vessels not under our control, a controlled approach by a seismic vessel, and controlled tests with a single airgun were observed.
(4) As sea ice melts, the bowhead whale and the narwhal will lose protective cover, while other species such as the ringed seal will struggle to breed.
(5) While the primary targets of the Japanese, like the Norwegians, are minke whales, so plentiful that they call them the cockroaches of the sea , (there may be up to 1.5 million minkes in the oceans), bowheads are rare, and with extraordinary lifetimes of up to 300 years, making them the longest living mammals .
(6) 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.
(7) This study showed that over much of the shallow Arctic and sub-Arctic waters, underwater communications of the bowhead whale would be limited to much shorter ranges than for other large whales in lower latitude, deep-water regions.
(8) In general, bowheads exhibit avoidance reactions when they receive seismic pulses stronger than about 160 dB re: 1 mu Pa.
(9) A study of the microbiological flora isolated from cultures of normal and lesional skin tissue samples collected from 19 bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) over a 4 yr period is presented.
(10) The lungs from six bowhead whales harvested by Alaskan Eskimos have been examined with light and electron microscopes.
(11) Tests with one 0.66-1 airgun showed that some bowheads move away from sources of strong seismic impulses even in the absence of boat noise, and that bowheads can detect the direction from which seismic impulses arrive.
(12) Three primary bowhead whale cell cultures were derived from kidney (two cultures) and testis (one culture), from three individual whales.
(13) Sounds were recorded from bowhead whales migrating past Pt.
(14) Most whale sounds were low-frequency moans, trumpeting roars, and repetitive sequences (songs) with peak spectrum source level up to 189 dB re: 1 microPa, 1 m. Lack of correlations between numbers of sounds and sighted whales precluded using bowhead sounds to count individuals or even to extrapolate ratios of unseen to observed whales.
(15) A sonobuoy array placed in the nearshore lead was used for locating bowhead whale sounds to determine if whales migrated past census stations beyond visual range and were uncounted.
(16) Renicules from twelve bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) were examined utilizing light, scanning electron, and transmission electron microscopes.
(17) Parsimony and neighbor-joining analyses based upon sequences of all repeats showed that the primary evolutionary distinction among the mysticetes is between the Balaenidae sensu stricto (i.e., the bowhead whale and the right whale) and all remaining species, including the pygmy right whale, a species that usually has been included in the Balaenidae.
(18) The area is home to iconic species such as polar bear, bowhead whales and walrus and to a vibrant indigenous subsistence culture.
(19) Thirty-seven other bowhead sounds over 15 h were distributed out to 6 km.
(20) People in the village rely on marine mammals for food, and the village has already taken six bowhead whales this season.
Whale
Definition:
(n.) Any aquatic mammal of the order Cetacea, especially any one of the large species, some of which become nearly one hundred feet long. Whales are hunted chiefly for their oil and baleen, or whalebone.
Example Sentences:
(1) A sperm whale myoglobin gene containing multiple unique restriction sites has been constructed in pUC 18 by sequential assembly of chemically synthesized oligonucleotide fragments.
(2) Japan needs to sell whale meat at a competitive price, similar to that of pork or chicken, and to do that it needs to increase its annual catch."
(3) Australia is hoping to put a permanent end to Japan's annual slaughter of hundreds of whales in the Southern Ocean, in a landmark legal challenge that begins this week.
(4) Earlier today Liz Sandeman, a marine mammal medic who went out in a lifeboat to examine the whale, said: "It looks quite healthy and quite relaxed.
(5) If anything, we empathise with the whales more than the humans because they're treated like animals.
(6) In 2011, a young sperm whale was found floating dead off the Greek island of Mykonos.
(7) At higher pH, this signal changes in a way different from that observed for whale myoglobin.
(8) Campbell said that if all signatories to the convention killed as many minke whales as Japan does, then more than 83,000 would be slaughtered in the Southern Ocean every year.
(9) Crystals have been grown of "sperm whale" myoglobin produced in Escherichia coli from a synthetic gene and the structure has been solved to 1.9 A resolution.
(10) Next year they will target 50 fin whales, 50 endangered humpbacks, and another 925 minkes.
(11) Crystalline myoglobin was isolated from the skeletal muscle of the finback whale and fractionated, in its cyanmet form, into nine components (I-IX) by chromatography on CM-cellulose.
(12) While in detention in Tokyo he indicated he no longer wished to take part in anti-whaling activities.
(13) Between June 20 and the end of August, whalers in Wadaura and three other villages will be permitted to catch 66 Baird's beaked whales that, because of their relatively small size, are not covered by the 1986 International Whaling Commission's ban on commercial hunting.
(14) Although Migaloo’s rough itinerary can be figured out, it is still a lucky whale watcher who spots him, Oskar Peterson, from the White Whale Research Centre , told Guardian Australia.
(15) Japan should undertake some DNA research in Japanese fish markets, where endangered whales - including orcas and humpbacks - are being sold as minke whales.
(16) 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.
(17) 3.06pm BST More scientific reaction Ken Collins, a senior research fellow at the University of Southampton, said there was no justification for using lethal methods for researching whales.
(18) Ben Lewis (@ben_lewis10) The 'vibe' of the #ICJ decision so far- #Whaling can be done for scientific research... but Japan doing on too big a scale.
(19) Occurrence of BaP adducts in the brain of three whales of this population coincides with the high incidence of tumours.
(20) Only one bryde's whale sample was available for investigation.