(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.
Whaler
Definition:
(n.) A vessel or person employed in the whale fishery.
(n.) One who whales, or beats; a big, strong fellow; hence, anything of great or unusual size.
Example Sentences:
(1) 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.
(2) This year the whalers plan to kill more than 900 minke whales and about 50 fin whales, reports said.
(3) The whalers began blasting conservationists on one raft with a water cannon, knocking one man off his feet and leaving him with cuts and bruises, Watson told The Associated Press by satellite phone.
(4) As they attempted to free themselves, a sudden pull swept up her colleague, who was left dangling in the air between the whaler’s bow and a 10-tonne corpse.
(5) The court said there was no research justification for the high kill targets set for Japan's whalers.
(6) Sea Shepherd's founder, Paul Watson, accused the whalers of deliberately ploughing into the front of the boat.
(7) Japan's whalers usually leave for the southern ocean in December and return in April.
(8) Of course you think maybe you are going to risk your life, or there might be an accident, but your beliefs are your engine.” A decade after Greenpeace activist Mark Hardingham was left in intensive care after getting in the way of a Norwegian whaler, Mompo sailed into Bergen to campaign for the protection of Norwegian coral reefs.
(9) Two historic ships are being repaired in dry dock, and a 17th-century whaler is moored near three tempting fish cafes.
(10) Wadaura's whalers will contribute 26 whales to the total, but they would like to be able to hunt many more.
(11) A court in Tokyo has handed a suspended sentence to an environmental activist after finding him guilty of assaulting a Japanese whaler and obstructing the country's whaling fleet.
(12) Glenn Inwood, the institute's spokesman in New Zealand , said the whalers' footage of the incident disproved the activists' account.
(13) Through cutting kill quotas by blocking their lethal operations, we have reduced kill numbers dramatically, saving more than 4,000 whales and costing the whalers their profits.
(14) Japan catches almost 17,000 smaller cetaceans off its coast every year – a tradition that its whalers say stretches back centuries.
(15) Anti-whaling activists today accused Japanese whalers of ramming and sinking one of their boats as international tension over Japan's annual "scientific" culls in Antarctic waters grew.
(16) Radical environmentalists who threw acid and smoke bombs at Japanese whalers were found in contempt of court for continuing their relentless campaign to disrupt the annual whale hunt off the waters of Antarctica.
(17) The ninth US circuit court of appeals on Friday ordered a commissioner to determine how much Paul Watson and members of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society he founded owe Japanese whalers for lawyer fees, damage to their ships and for violating the court order to stop their dangerous protests.
(18) The fisheries agency blamed the poor catch on bad weather and "sabotage" by Sea Shepherd, which has confronted the whalers every year since 2005.
(19) The Japanese whalers are demanding $2m in addition to their attorney fees and damage and cost to their ships for warding off the protests.
(20) Afterwards, the whalers contacted Greenpeace to apologise.