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Balaena9

• Here we show that olfactory bulbs of bowhead whales ( Balaena mysticetus ) lack glomeruli on the dorsal side, consistent with the molecular data. (peerj.com)
• Bowhead whales ( Balaena mysticetus ) are the only living member of the Balaena genus. (whalescientists.com)
• Bowhead whale, Balaena mysticetus, Mother and recently born calf from Critically endangered Barents sea population. (photoshelter.com)
• A high-coverage genome of the bowhead whale ( Balaena mysticetus ), the longest-lived mammal. (senescence.info)
• n = 20) and bowhead (Balaena mysticetus: n = 5) whales. (illinois.edu)
• Our objective was to determine the extent to which analyses of the distribution of bowhead whales Balaena mysticetus are affected by changes in visual 'availability' caused by seismic operations. (int-res.com)
• Bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) summering in the eastern Beaufort Sea in 1983 were measured through aerial stereophotogrammetry. (cascadiaresearch.org)
• Especie Balaena mysticetus, de la familia Balaenidae, existente en las aguas más frías del hemisferio norte. (bvsalud.org)
• It's worth noting that the largest animals to have ever lived are all aquatic and include other whale species such as the Fin Whale (Balaenoptera physalus) and the Bowhead Whale (Balaena mysticetus) and some species of prehistoric marine reptiles such as the Mosasaurus and the Liopleurodon. (largestandbiggest.com)

Humpback whale3

• One unique aspect of bowhead vocalizations is that they are uniquely prolific compared to their baleen cousin, the humpback whale . (whalescientists.com)
• Bowhead Whale does not taste quite as good as other whales , such as Minke Whale, Fin Whale or Humpback Whale, which are the whales that are more often seen in the local food culture . (visitgreenland.com)
• To gauge how thorough this baleen record is, Riekenberg and a team of scientists in the Netherlands recently examined baleen from five whales: three juvenile fin whales, one adult humpback whale and a minke whale of undetermined age. (paperpanda.app)

Beluga4

• More than 21,000 beluga whales live year round in the eastern Arctic. (pewtrusts.org)
• With helicopter and Inuit guide, aqualungs and underwater cameras, the expedition searches out and meets the bowhead and beluga. (nfb.tv)
• This exhibit highlights six of the animals struggling to adapt to changes in the Arctic: the polar bear, caribou, narwhal, bowhead whale, beluga and walrus. (thecanadianencyclopedia.ca)
• Through initiatives like our Arctic Species Conservation Fund , we support research on the polar bear, barren-ground caribou, walrus, narwhal, bowhead whale and beluga whale. (wwf.ca)

Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission2

• Notices of aboriginal subsistence whaling quota for bowhead whales that NOAA Fisheries has assigned to the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission, and of limitations on the use of the quota deriving from regulations of the International Whaling Commission. (noaa.gov)
• and as a spokesman for the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission. (ebenhopson.com)

Chukchi Sea5

• Roughly 17,000 whales depart from northern Canada and travel west, along the northern shores of Alaska, before crossing the Chukchi Sea to Russia. (insideclimatenews.org)
• I don't think we've seen a single bowhead whale in the Chukchi Sea this year, and that's a total anomaly," she said. (insideclimatenews.org)
• Studies confirm they are preying on bowheads in the eastern Chukchi Sea and western Beaufort Sea. (alaskabeacon.com)
• A dead bowhead calf, spotted floating in the Chukchi Sea in 2015, was found upon close analysis to have the tell-tale signs of killer whale predation. (alaskabeacon.com)
• This paper develops and illustrates a Bayesian inversion for bowhead whale localization and nonlinear uncertainty estimation using time-difference-of-arrivals (TDOA) of whale calls recorded on omni-directional asynchronous recorders in the Chukchi Sea, Alaska. (caa-aca.ca)

Whale's5

• In Canada, the bowhead whale's range includes eastern and western Arctic regions, in two populations. (thecanadianencyclopedia.ca)
• The Bowhead Whale's particularly dense structure, with its incredibly large and solid head, is useful for a creature which lives its life in an area with sea ice. (visitgreenland.com)
• Fin whales have a unique asymmetrical coloration: a white patch on the lower jaw on the right side that is absent on the whale's left side. (thoughtco.com)
• The team is trying to determine what oceanographic factors are affecting the whale's food supply, what impacts climate change will have on this food chain and the impacts these changes will have on the Inupiat people who depend on the whales for cultural and nutritional sustenance. (armadaproject.org)
• Other sources, including plugs of whale earwax (which record environmental conditions, such as pollutants, like rings of a tree stump ), provide lengthy records from the course of a whale's lifetime. (paperpanda.app)

Inuit4

• Inuit have hunted bowhead whales for thousands of years, using stone tools to hunt these 25 ton mammals. (isuma.tv)
• The caribou, polar bear, several species of whale, including the bowhead, seals and other sea mammals, and ducks and geese all are the moving parts of a single Arctic ecological system of wildlife habitats upon which we Inuit have always hunted to survive. (ebenhopson.com)
• The film was shot in April 1973 at the aptly named Icy Cape in Alaska, an abandoned Inuit village once known for spring whaling. (nfb.tv)
• Whale meat has always been a central food source for Inuit in Greenland, and it has never been the local hunt that has threatened populations. (visitgreenland.com)

20172

• Hunting With My Ancestors Episode 1: Bowhead Whale Hunt, Isuma, Kingulliit Productions 2017, Director Zacharias Kunuk. (isuma.tv)
• A 2017 study led by Craig George, a longtime North Slope Borough biologist, found an increased frequency over time of killer whale-inflicted scars on subsistence-harvested bowheads. (alaskabeacon.com)

Narwhal1

• Baffin Bay is home to the largest of the world's three narwhal populations and numbers more than 60,000 whales. (pewtrusts.org)

Right whale3

• Also known as the Greenland right whale, the Arctic whale, and the Russian whale, the bowhead whale is found only in Arctic and sub-Arctic waters. (happyhentoys.com)
• Bottlenose dolphins have the third largest encephalization levels of any mammal on Earth (humans have the largest, followed by Northern Right whale dolphins ), sharing close ratios with those of humans and other cetaceans , while being twice as high of other great apes . (wikipedia.org)
• How Can We Protect the North Pacific Right Whale? (oceanconservancy.org)

Inupiat3

• I have traveled from Barrow to London to defend our Inupiat subsistence bowhead whaling rights from harm from the international politics of commercial whaling. (ebenhopson.com)
• Specific topics covered include whale taxonomy, physiology, diet, behaviors, and overall movement through subarctic and arctic waters, as well as the current tagging and aerial observation programs and work with Inupiat whalers. (uaf.edu)
• The new study detailing 2019 numbers and the previous 2020 study detailing 2009-2018 numbers comprise the first project to systematically examine causes of death for Alaska bowheads killed outside of the traditional Inupiat subsistence hunts. (alaskabeacon.com)

Caribou1

• From Alaskan tundra animals (including Caribou, Wolves, and Arctic Foxes) and Alaskan bears (Black, Brown, and Polar) to endangered species such as Steller's Sea Lions and Humpback Whales, the wildlife of Alaska is thrillingly diverse. (greenglobaltravel.com)

Minke Whale1

• The common minke whale has been divided into 3 subspecies: the North Atlantic minke whale ( Balaenoptera acutorostrata acutorostrata ), the North Pacific minke whale ( Balaenoptera acutorostrata scammoni ), and the dwarf minke whale (whose scientific name has not yet been determined). (thoughtco.com)

Marine9

• The Whale and Dolphin Conservation team expands the Greater Atlantic Regional Marine Mammal Stranding Network. (whales.org)
• Whales, like many marine animals, use sound to navigate the oceans and communicate. (whalescientists.com)
• Narrated by Chris Koonooka , Fannie Akpik , and Pausauraq Jana Harcharek , the producers of the film aim to improve public understanding of the marine ecosystem, with emphasis on the whales and the zooplankton. (uaf.edu)
• is a story about more than bowhead whales and Arctic marine ecosystems. (uaf.edu)
• a "drastic shift" from the eastern Chukchi to the western Beaufort as a place where bowhead carcasses were found, said lead author Amy Willoughby of the University of Washington and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Marine Mammal Laboratory in Seattle. (alaskabeacon.com)
• Still, the findings fit into a larger pattern, emerging in Alaska and elsewhere, of killer whales spending more time in Arctic waters and preying on marine mammals there. (alaskabeacon.com)
• It was the first of many incredible sightings of Alaska wildlife, which includes approximately 112 mammal species, 525 bird species, 14 species of whales and porpoises, and 3700+ other species of marine life. (greenglobaltravel.com)
• Pinpointing when and where particular whales move is vital, according to Nadine Lysiak, a marine ecologist at Boston's Suffolk University, who was not involved in the study. (paperpanda.app)
• Blue whales feed on tiny marine animals called krill, consuming up to 4 tons of krill per day. (largestandbiggest.com)

World's3

• The Bowhead Whale can boast not only of its appearance in Season 4 of Borgen , but also of its status as the world's most padded baleen whale, and its history of coming close to extinction. (visitgreenland.com)
• The Bowhead Whale is not very long, but it is padded - it actually has the world's thickest layer of fat, at up to 50-60 cm thick. (visitgreenland.com)
• Of the world's whales, only bowhead and humpback whales produce a large variety of songs. (jazzfin.com)

Greenland12

• The whales roam between west Greenland and Canada, spending their winters far offshore in Davis Strait and Baffin Bay . (pewtrusts.org)
• From late autumn to early spring, off the east coast of Greenland, some 200 bowheads, serenade each other with compositions from a vast repertoire of song. (wildkatpr.com)
• Whale hunting is an ancient tradition in Greenland, a deeply rooted part of the local hunting culture. (visitgreenland.com)
• In Greenland since 2008, local hunters have been allowed to hunt two individual Bowhead Whales per year, although it has not actually been an important tradition to eat Bowhead Whale. (visitgreenland.com)
• Why are whales hunted in Greenland - can they be eaten? (visitgreenland.com)
• As a result, local sources of food, such as whale meat, are still an important and much-loved part of the food culture in Greenland. (visitgreenland.com)
• All three whales are still a beloved delicacy in Greenland. (visitgreenland.com)
• The Bowhead Whale is the only baleen whale that spends its winters in Greenland, and this is a serious undertaking. (visitgreenland.com)
• As early as 1611 Bowhead whales resident between the east coast of Greenland and the island of Spitzbergen were the subject of intensive commercial hunting effort by Dutch, German and British whalers. (ox.ac.uk)
• In this paper we compare and contrast four methodological approaches that can be used to estimate the Greenland-Spitzbergen Bowhead stock size prior to, and during, commercial exploitation. (ox.ac.uk)
• Using species-specific biological parameters, a delayed-difference recruitment model, and historical whaling records, we reconstruct the Greenland-Spitzbergen Bowhead population throughout the period of human predation. (ox.ac.uk)
• We estimate that there were approximately 52,500 adult Bowhead whales resident in the waters between the east coast of Greenland and the island of Spitzbergen in 1611. (ox.ac.uk)

Barrow3

• We depend on it as our greatest food source for the cold winters," said Herman Ahsoak, a whaling captain and board member of the Barrow Whaling Captains Association. (insideclimatenews.org)
• It was the bowhead whale that brought my grandfather, Fred Hopson, to Barrow from Liverpool. (ebenhopson.com)
• This diverse group of oceanographers is collecting data in hopes of determining what causes the bowheads to congregate near Barrow during their annual fall migration from their summer feeding grounds in the Canadian arctic to the Bering Sea. (armadaproject.org)

Waters10

• Bowhead whales are only found in polar waters in the northern hemisphere and have evolved to cope with living within the thick pack ice. (whales.org)
• These magnificent baleen whales only reside in the polar waters of the Arctic. (whalescientists.com)
• Discover the story of bowhead whale migration through Arctic waters. (uaf.edu)
• The visual elements of the film center around 3D photorealistic animation of whales, copepods, and krill in arctic waters, as well as hemispheric-level interpretation of bowhead annual movement using MODIS satellite imagery, and featuring aerial survey and satellite tagging data. (uaf.edu)
• Killer whales are seen swimming in Alaska waters in 2005. (alaskabeacon.com)
• As sea ice diminishes, killer whales are increasing their presence in farther north waters. (alaskabeacon.com)
• There are new signs that killer whales, which are swimming farther north and staying for longer periods of the year in Arctic waters, are increasingly preying on Alaska's bowhead whales. (alaskabeacon.com)
• Numerous studies and Indigenous whalers' reports are documenting more killer whales spending more time and making more predation attempts in far-north waters. (alaskabeacon.com)
• By 1911 there was no significant, permanent population of Bowhead whales living in these waters. (ox.ac.uk)
• During the summer, these whales gorge themselves in rich arctic waters, spiking the nitrogen 15 levels in their baleen. (paperpanda.app)

Balaenidae1

• They are cousins to Right whales ( Eubalaena ) in the Balaenidae family. (whalescientists.com)

Seismic5

• However, estimates of abundance are often biased because they fail to account for the effects of seismic operations on the surfacing and diving behavior of whales. (int-res.com)
• We used aerial survey data collected during seismic operations in the Alaskan Beaufort Sea from late August to early October 2008 and fit spatial density surface models to bowhead sighting data to predict whale density in an ensonified area. (int-res.com)
• The influence of altered whale behavior was then evaluated by comparing a series of realistic simulated scenarios in which models incorporated undisturbed or seismic disturbance-related correction factors. (int-res.com)
• Results suggest that the numbers of bowhead whales present in the vicinity of seismic operations during the bowhead autumn migration are underestimated if the behavioral effects of seismic operations on whales are ignored. (int-res.com)
• Robertson FC, Koski WR, Trites AW (2016) Behavioral responses affect distribution analyses of bowhead whales in the vicinity of seismic operations. (int-res.com)

Alaska's2

• Alaska's Big Whale Mystery: Where Are the Bowheads? (insideclimatenews.org)
• Normally, thousands of the whales would be moving along Alaska's northern coast in October, but that hasn't happened this year. (insideclimatenews.org)

Reconstruct2

• In todays news: Ycat select finalists, baby-opera is coming to the Met, Bowhead whales sing jazz, Mozart is played with light beams, the Dublin Piano Competition turns 30, Alan Gilbert's plans for the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, German theatres and orchestras apply for UNESCO World Heritage, and Swiss scientists reconstruct Pasticcios of Mayr and Donizetti. (wildkatpr.com)
• Baleen also bristles with useful environmental data, according to a new study that demonstrates how its chemical makeup can help scientists reconstruct details ranging from whales' migration routes to their diets. (paperpanda.app)

19791

• Since 1979, the federal government has flown planes over the area to track the bowheads' migration and ensure that their population is bouncing back after it dwindled to around 3,000 at the end of commercial whaling in the early 1900s. (insideclimatenews.org)

Species of whales1

• There are currently 86 recognized species of whales, dolphins , and porpoises . (thoughtco.com)

Densities1

• ABSTRACT: Aerial surveys are sometimes used to assess the densities of wide-ranging whales, as well as changes in their distributions in response to human activity. (int-res.com)

Balaenoptera2

• The scientific name for the Bryde's whale is Balaenoptera edeni , but there is increasing evidence that shows there may actually be two Bryde's whale species: a coastal species that would be known as Balaenoptera edeni and an offshore form known as Balaenoptera brydei . (thoughtco.com)
• The blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is considered the largest animal that has ever lived. (largestandbiggest.com)

Blue whales5

• Other filter feed baleen whales, such as blue whales, fin whales, and minke whales, produce much simpler songs. (jazzfin.com)
• Blue whales are thought to be the largest animal ever to live on the Earth. (thoughtco.com)
• This pigmentation allows researchers to tell individual blue whales apart, as the patterns vary from whale to whale. (thoughtco.com)
• Blue whales also make some of the loudest sounds in the animal kingdom. (thoughtco.com)
• Blue whales can grow up to 100 feet (30 meters) long and can weigh as much as 200 tons (180 metric tonnes). (largestandbiggest.com)

Blubber1

• When I eat muktuk and meat, it fills my mind, body and spirit," said Ahsoak, referring to whale blubber, which is a delicacy of great cultural significance. (insideclimatenews.org)

Annual migration2

• In October, as the hours of daylight dwindle and the residents of Utqiagvik prepare for winter, the bowhead whales make their annual migration. (insideclimatenews.org)
• This film tells the story of bowhead whale annual migration in the Bering, Beaufort, and Chukchi Seas. (uaf.edu)

Allow whales1

• The plates allow whales to feed on large quantities of prey at once while filtering out seawater. (thoughtco.com)

Grounds2

• The whales' migration back to wintering grounds through Lancaster Sound peaks in mid-September and has been known to take place in as little as two or three days. (pewtrusts.org)
• There are now two gray whale populations: the California gray whale which is found from breeding grounds off Baja California, Mexico to feeding grounds off Alaska, and a small population off the coast of eastern Asia, known as the Western North Pacific or Korean gray whale stock. (thoughtco.com)

Sperm1

• Sperm whale ( Physeter macrocephalus ) collision with a research vessel: accidental collision or deliberate ramming? (st-andrews.ac.uk)

Calf2

• This calf was among several dead bowheads in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas that were determined to have been killed by killer whales. (alaskabeacon.com)
• Willoughby and her colleagues were also the first to assemble direct proof of killer whale predation on Alaska bowheads - a dead bowhead calf photographed in 2015 with bite marks on its flipper, mouth and jaw. (alaskabeacon.com)

20192

• A bowhead whale spotted by observers on Oct. 29, 2019. (insideclimatenews.org)
• A newly published study found that 2019, an especially warm year in the region, also seems to have been an especially dangerous year for bowheads targeted by killer whales. (alaskabeacon.com)

Magnificent2

• The objective was to film the bowhead, a magnificent inhabitant of the cold Arctic seas brought to the edge of extinction by overfishing. (nfb.tv)
• This magnificent rendition of an Bowhead whale, I believe is engaging in an act of play. (inuitsculptures.com)

Zooplankton1

• Carin's group is studying the food web of the massive bowhead whale, a baleen whale that feeds on zooplankton. (armadaproject.org)

Baleen plates2

• Baleen whales have baleen plates in their upper jaws, rather than teeth. (thoughtco.com)
• Instead the team took baleen plates from whale specimens that had either stranded on Dutch beaches or been fatally struck by unsuspecting boats. (paperpanda.app)

20161

• Commenting on the footage, WDC Research Fellow and FEROP Director, Erich Hoyt explained, "This extraordinary video shows a juvenile bowhead being corralled and killed by orcas in summer 2016, although it has only been made public recently. (whales.org)

Quota1

• Utqiagvik whalers have a quota 25 whales a year, split between a hunt in the spring and one in the fall. (insideclimatenews.org)

Vocalizations2

• While other baleen whales like Humpbacks have somewhat predictable vocal patterns, bowheads have unique and constantly changing vocalizations. (whalescientists.com)
• Researchers this week published the results of an intensive study of the vocalizations , or whale song, of about 300 bowhead whales. (jazzfin.com)

Long and weigh2

• Bowhead whales can grow up to 66ft (20m) long and weigh up to 200,000lbs (90 tons)! (whalescientists.com)
• Bryde's whales are 40 to 55 feet long and weigh up to 45 tons. (thoughtco.com)

Killer Whale4

• That year, 11 dead bowheads were found in the eastern Chukchi and western Beaufort seas, with seven of them identified as killer whale victims and the others with causes undetermined. (alaskabeacon.com)
• Eighteen of them were identified as killer whale victims, according to a previous study by the same authors. (alaskabeacon.com)
• Also unknown, she said, is how many dead bowheads went undetected - and how many of those were killer whale victims. (alaskabeacon.com)
• A study published in 2018 tracked an increasing frequency of killer whale calls in the Chukchi in the fall months. (alaskabeacon.com)

Scientists4

• It's a migration that has been tracked, year in and year out, both by scientists via aerial surveys and by indigenous hunters, who rely on the whales for food. (insideclimatenews.org)
• Scientists believe bowhead can repair their DNA faster than other species, which could explain why they live so long. (whalescientists.com)
• Stafford and other scientists have compared the songs of bowhead whales to jazz music . (jazzfin.com)
• Scientists believe that only male bowhead whales sing, and they sing to find a mate. (jazzfin.com)

Hunt4

• In Utqiagvik, where 63 percent of the population is Iñupiat Iñupiaq, many people rely on food they hunt and catch, and they count on the fall whale hunt to fill their ice cellars for the winter. (insideclimatenews.org)
• This year's hunt has been complicated by the lack of whales and a bout of bad weather, which has kept the hunters on the land for days at a time. (insideclimatenews.org)
• The hunt for the bigger whales, such as Humpback Whales, Minke Whales and Fin Whales, is for commercial hunters who have a licence and can sell the meat afterwards. (visitgreenland.com)
• Whales use sound to move, communicate, hunt for food and find mates. (jazzfin.com)

Hunters2

• Hunters waiting at seal breathing holes and whaling from kayaks are also depicted in ivory. (indiancraftshopsales.com)
• This challenges hunters' movement on the ice, ice fishing, seal hunting and hunting of the big whales. (visitgreenland.com)

Patterns2

• While humpback whales tend to repeat vocalization patterns, bowhead whales have shown differences in their songs within and across different years. (whalescientists.com)
• Unfortunately, we do not have comparable data before 2009 in this portion of bowhead whale range, so we cannot determine what is normal or establish patterns without future data ," Willoughby said by email. (alaskabeacon.com)

Populations1

• Both populations were severely reduced as a result of commercial whaling, which began in the 1500s and ended around 1915. (thecanadianencyclopedia.ca)

Humpbacks1

• Humpbacks are medium-sized baleen whales, about 40 to 50 feet long and between 20 and 30 tons. (thoughtco.com)

Dorsal1

• Recent molecular studies revealed that all modern whales have lost olfactory receptor genes and marker genes that are specific to the dorsal domain. (peerj.com)

BELUGAS1

• AMG granules aggregated in periportal regions in belugas with lower hepatic Hg concentrations, yet among whales with higher Hg, AMG granule deposition extended to pericentral and midzonal regions of liver lobules. (illinois.edu)

20181

• That compares to the 33 dead bowheads found floating or beached in the region in the previous decade, from 2009 to 2018. (alaskabeacon.com)

Newly1

• The Omura's whale is a newly discovered species, first designated in 2003. (thoughtco.com)

Extinction1

• To understand the relationship between the commercial exploitation of the Bowhead and their eventual extinction we must determine the chronology of their decline, starting with an estimate of the initial, pristine stock size. (ox.ac.uk)