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• It is the only baleen whale endemic to the Arctic and subarctic waters, and is named after its characteristic massive triangular skull, which it uses to break through Arctic ice. (wikipedia.org)
• Other common names of the species are the Greenland right whale or Arctic whale. (wikipedia.org)
• Analysis of hundreds of DNA samples from living whales and from baleen used in vessels, toys, and housing material has shown that Arctic bowhead whales have lost a significant portion of their genetic diversity in the past 500 years. (wikipedia.org)
• To learn the secret behind aging gracefully, you may want to check out the bowhead whale, the majestic denizen of the Arctic waters that boasts a lifespan topping 200 years. (scientificamerican.com)
• Aerial drone footage of bowhead whales in Canada's Arctic has revealed that the large mammals molt and use rocks to rub off dead skin. (eurekalert.org)
• As oceans change, relatively large-bodied, fatty Arctic crustaceans known as zooplankton the preferred prey of bowhead whales could move to new habitats further north while smaller-bodied, temperate species that are lower in energy are likely to dominate the waters. (eurekalert.org)
• Bowhead whales can be found in the circumpolar Arctic and sub-Arctic waters. (nammco.no)
• The bowhead is an Arctic resident, living its whole life in Arctic or sub-Arctic waters. (nammco.no)
• 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. (biomedsearch.com)
• Arctic Currents: A Year in the Life of the Bowhead Whale (an animated film) Blog This blog follows the creation of a short animated film about the annual migration of the bowhead whale. (north-slope.org)
• Bowhead whales are the only baleen whales that spend their entire lives in and around Arctic waters. (animalcorner.co.uk)
• The western Arctic stock (Bering-Chukchi-Beaufort seas) is the largest population of bowhead whales. (grandespirito.it)
• Whale watching is one of the most popular experiences travellers want to cross off their bucket lists in the Arctic. (grandespirito.it)
• On the other side of the world, the massive bowhead whales make their way around the Arctic, filtering the ocean for some of the tiniest animals out there: copepods. (mentalfloss.com)
• Bowheads have the thickest blubber of any animal-up to 20 inches thick-so that they can weather the frigid Arctic seas. (mentalfloss.com)
• It lives entirely in fertile Arctic and sub-Arctic waters, unlike other whales that migrate to feed or reproduce to low latitude waters. (twistedsifter.com)
• The bowhead whale found in the Arctic is also a balaenid whale, but sufficiently different to warrant its own genus Balaena . (wikipedia.org)
• Scientists estimate the lifespan of this whale species, which commonly roams the Arctic, to be more than 100 years. (cnn.com)
• This lesson is inspired by the need to share the importance of the Bowhead Whale in relation to the culture of arctic people. (polartrec.com)
• Bowhead whales live exclusively in the arctic at the surface of the ocean. (frontiersnorth.com)
• in the fall it is common to see pods as large as 50 whales return to southern arctic waters to breed and calve. (frontiersnorth.com)
• Working in Florida Tech's Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory and the Center for High Resolution Microscopy, the scientists went on to study how this mutation affects the wiring of the whale retina by studying the bowhead whale, a resident of the Arctic. (phys.org)
• The International Whaling Commission on Wednesday cast a rare strong vote in favor of whale hunting but strictly for small subsistence hunts undertaken by some communities, mostly in the Arctic. (japantimes.co.jp)
• For the first time, scientists have eavesdropped year-round on the songs of bowhead whales, the little-heard whales that roam the Arctic under the ice. (japantimes.co.jp)
• Bowheads are mainly found near the Arctic icepack and feed on planktonic organisms consuming about two tons (1,814 kg) of food every day. (guinnessworldrecords.com)
• A polar bear framed by the remains of a dead bowhead whale sniffs the air near the coast of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. (nationalpost.com)
• an Arctic whale Monodon monoceros with an extraordinary dentition, no conventional teeth, two upper central teeth only, one of which develops into a long tusk in the male. (thefreedictionary.com)
• But I'd also like to go back to the Arctic, to spend time with belugas and Narwhal whales. (thefreedictionary.com)
• Today, about 10,000 bowhead whales live in the Arctic Ocean. (commondreams.org)
• Inupiat communities across the Arctic coast of Alaska primarily depend on Bowhead whales for subsistence food and our culture is tied intimately with the whales and the sea. (globalresearch.ca)
• Whale meat feeds families throughout the long, dark winter, and provides nourishment, warmth and fuel for our daily activities during the Arctic winter. (globalresearch.ca)
• The Arctic marine environment of Alaska is home to many species of ecological and cultural importance, including polar bears, bowhead whales, seals, seabirds, and fish. (cakex.org)
• Western Arctic bowhead whales migrate through the region in the spring and fall. (popularmechanics.com)

Marine Mammals9

• As recently as 1998, Dale Rice, in his comprehensive and otherwise authoritative classification, Marine Mammals of the World: Systematics and Distribution, listed just two species: B. glacialis (the right whales) and B. mysticetus (the bowheads). (wikipedia.org)
• Bowhead whales are the longest-living marine mammals on the planet, with lifespans up to 200 years. (eurekalert.org)
• A University of Washington study has published the largest set of recordings for bowhead whales , to discover that these marine mammals have a surprisingly diverse, constantly shifting vocal repertoire. (phys.org)
• Stafford has recorded whales' sounds throughout the world's oceans as a way to track and study marine mammals. (phys.org)
• 1 Reeves R R, Leatherwood S. Bowhead whale Balaena mysticetus Linnaeus, 1758//Ridgway S H, Harrison R J. Handbook of marine mammals, Vol 3: the sirenians and baleen whales. (aps-polar.org)
• Whales are marine mammals of the order Cetartiodactyla. (conservapedia.com)
• The toothed whales (Odontoceti) have teeth and prey on fish , squid , marine mammals , and so forth. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
• We propose that decimation of the great whales by post-World War II industrial whaling caused the great whales' foremost natural predators, killer whales, to begin feeding more intensively on the smaller marine mammals, thus "fishing-down" this element of the marine food web. (pnas.org)
• Other family members taught me how to hunt whales and other marine mammals. (globalresearch.ca)

Blubber6

• The blubber layer of the bowhead whale is thick, ranging from 5.5 cm on the chin to 28 cm on the trunk (Haldiman & Tarpley 1993). (nammco.no)
• The blubber layer of whale flesh is thicker than in any other animal, averaging 43 - 50 centimetres (17 - 20 inches). (animalcorner.co.uk)
• Century-old harpoons have been found embedded in some whales blubber, showing how old they can get and how they were attacked. (animalcorner.co.uk)
• Zerbini, A.N. Balaenids are distinguished by their enlarged head and thick blubber,[3][4] while rorquals and gray whales generally have a flat head, long throat pleats, and are more streamlined than Balaenids. (com.vn)
• With gut piles as tall as the polar bears, they spend weeks picking the whale bones - gorging themselves on blubber, organs and muscle tissue, Barrow resident Nagruk Harcharek said. (nationalpost.com)
• A bowhead whale can have a layer of blubber up to 20 inches thick. (eduplace.com)

Species47

• The bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) is a species of baleen whale belonging to the family Balaenidae and the only living representative of the genus Balaena. (wikipedia.org)
• It was seemingly identical to its relatives in the North Atlantic, North Pacific, and Southern Oceans, and as such they were all thought to be a single species, collectively known as the "right whale", and given the binomial name Balaena mysticetus. (wikipedia.org)
• Authorities have repeatedly recategorized the three populations of right whale plus the bowhead whale, as one, two, three or four species, either in a single genus or in two separate genera. (wikipedia.org)
• Studies in the 2000s finally provided clear evidence that the three living right whale species comprise a phylogenetic lineage, distinct from the bowhead, and that the bowhead and the right whales are rightly classified into two separate genera. (wikipedia.org)
• An unknown species of right whale, the so-called "Swedenborg whale", which was proposed by Emanuel Swedenborg in the 18th century, was once thought to be a North Atlantic right whale by scientific consensus. (wikipedia.org)
• Bowhead whales are comparable in size to the three species of right whales. (wikipedia.org)
• Very little is known about molting in any of the large whale species. (eurekalert.org)
• On the basis of various direct and indirect evidence individuals of this species are thought to live for more than two centuries, and it seems only reasonable to ask how the whales manage this feat. The UK group are not the only researchers to work on answering this question. (fightaging.org)
• It is also one of the two largest animals and the most cold-adapted baleen whale species. (fightaging.org)
• There are over 15 species of Baleen Whales that inhabit our oceans. (animalcorner.co.uk)
• These are plates that are … Bowhead whales are an endangered species. (grandespirito.it)
• This book is intended to be a cohesive species account of the bowhead whale. (ebooksdownloads.xyz)
• The U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service has announced the adoption and availability of an Endangered Species Act Recovery Plan for the Cook Inlet beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas) distinct population segment (DPS) found in Cook Inlet, AK. (thecre.com)
• A newly discovered species of ancient whale unearthed in Peru split time between land and sea. (sciencenews.org)
• The North Pacific right whale ( Eubalaena japonica ) is a very large, thickset baleen whale species that is extremely rare and endangered. (wikipedia.org)
• Since 2000, scientists have considered the right whales in the North Pacific and nearby seas to be a separate species, Eubalaena japonica , the North Pacific Right Whale. (wikipedia.org)
• The recognition of the different populations of Eubalaena whales as distinct species is supported by the Society for Marine Mammalogy , [9] the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service, and the International Whaling Commission. (wikipedia.org)
• It very closely resembles the North Atlantic right whale ( E. glacialis ) the southern right whale ( E. australis ), so much so they were long thought to be just one species. (wikipedia.org)
• Relative to the other right whale species, E. japonica may be slightly larger. (wikipedia.org)
• E. japonica is easily distinguished from other North Pacific whale species by several fieldmarks: lack of dorsal fin or bump, very broad, black back, cyamid-covered callosities on the head and lips, a very arched jaw line, a very narrow rostrum, and often a V-shaped spout. (wikipedia.org)
• The southern right whale ( Eubalaena australis ) is a baleen whale , one of three species classified as right whales belonging to the genus Eubalaena . (wikipedia.org)
• Right whales were first classified in the genus Balaena in 1758 by Carl Linnaeus , who at the time considered all right whales (including the bowhead) to be a single species. (wikipedia.org)
• In the early whaling days, they were all thought to be a single species, Balaena mysticetus . (wikipedia.org)
• Later, morphological factors such as differences in the skull shape of northern and southern right whales indicated at least two species of right whale-one in the Northern Hemisphere, the other in the Southern Ocean . (wikipedia.org)
• Genetic evidence now clearly demonstrates that the northern and southern populations of right whale have not interbred for between 3 million and 12 million years, confirming the southern right whale as a distinct species. (wikipedia.org)
• Odontoceti or toothed whales (containing porpoises , dolphins , other predatory whales like the beluga and the sperm whale , and the poorly understood beaked whales ) and the filter feeding Mysticeti or baleen whales (which includes species like the blue whale , the humpback whale and the bowhead whale ). (wikipedia.org)
• They also face environmental hazards such as underwater noise pollution , plastic buildup and ongoing climate change, [7] [8] but how much they were affected varies widely from species to species, from minimally in the case of the southern bottlenose whale to the baiji (or Chinese river dolphin) which is considered to be functionally extinct due to human activity. (wikipedia.org)
• Some species, such as sperm whales, are well adapted for diving to great depths. (wikipedia.org)
• Several species of toothed whales show sexual dimorphism , in which the males differ from the females, usually for purposes of sexual display or aggression. (wikipedia.org)
• Yet there are 78 species of whale on the planet, and we're still learning weird stuff about them all the time. (listverse.com)
• The study of this whale species, which numbers less than 500 individuals remaining in the Western Atlantic Ocean, may also help scientists better understand how vision works in other mammals, including people. (phys.org)
• Now researchers are finding some whale species in which that single gene is fundamentally broken. (phys.org)
• The ability of an endangered whale species to recover is jeopardized by increasing rates of entanglement in fishing gear and a resultant drop in birth rates, according to scientists who study the animal. (phys.org)
• Other large whale species ( Mysticeti ) showed a similar pattern, mainly blue Balaenoptera musculus , humpback Megaptera novaeanglia e and fin whales Balaenoptera physalus . (aps-polar.org)
• Although whales are famed for the massive size reached by some species, such as the blue whale (the largest animal to ever live), others are relatively small, like the pygmy right whale which grows to about 20 feet [1] . (conservapedia.com)
• In addition to numerous species of dolphins and porpoises, this suborder includes the Beluga whale and the sperm whale, which may be the largest toothed animals to ever inhabit Earth. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
• This group comprises the largest living known animal species, the blue whale. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
• Most species of whale bear a fin on their backs known as a dorsal fin. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
• The shapes of whales' spouts when exhaling from the blowholes after a dive, when seen from the right angle, differ between species. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
• The first is the Odontoceti , the toothed whales, which consist of around 70 species, including the dolphin (which includes killer whales ), porpoise , beluga whale , narwhal , sperm whale , and beaked whale . (wikipedia.org)
• whale') whales, which have a filter-feeder system, and consist of 15 species divided into 3 families, and include the right whale , bowhead whale , rorqual , pygmy right whale , and gray whale . (wikipedia.org)
• Cetaceans have streamlined bodies: they can swim very quickly, with the killer whale able to travel at 56 kilometres per hour (35 mph) in short bursts, the fin whale able to cruise at 48 kilometres per hour (30 mph), dolphins able to make very tight turns at high speeds, [3] and some species diving to great depths. (wikipedia.org)
• Mothers of some species fast and nurse their young for a relatively short period of time, which is more typical of baleen whales as their main food source (invertebrates) aren't found in their breeding and calving grounds ( tropics ). (wikipedia.org)
• Researchers are leafing through the genomes of thousands of animals to discover how some species have evolved resistance to cancer, and what humans might learn from humpback whales and elephants. (phoenixmag.com)
• So to suss out why, for example, Tasmanian devils and California sea lions are prone to cancer while bowhead whales and naked mole rats appear immune, ACE researchers will analyze veterinary records of more than 170,000 organisms across thousands of species. (phoenixmag.com)
• A new species of whale discovered in 33-million-year-old Oregon rock has been named for Elizabeth Nesbitt, a curator at the Burke Museum and faculty member in the UW's Department of Earth and Space Sciences. (washington.edu)
• Balaenidae , Balaenopteridae , the Neobalaenidae (including a single extant species, the pygmy right whale, Caperea marginata ), and the Eschrichtiidae (including a single extant species, the gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus ). (tolweb.org)

Baleen whale5

• The bowhead whale is a large baleen whale. (nammco.no)
• The Bowhead whale ( Balaena mysticetus ) is a baleen whale of the right whale family Balaenidae . (twistedsifter.com)
• E. japonica is a very large, thickset baleen whale. (wikipedia.org)
• A very large baleen whale (Balaenoptera musculus) having a bluish-gray back and grooves on the throat. (thefreedictionary.com)
• As a baleen whale, the bowhead has between 325-360 fringed overlapping plates hanging from each side of the upper jaw, where teeth would normally be found. (guinnessworldrecords.com)

Balaenidae4

• Balaena mysticetus ( bowhead whale ) See BALAENIDAE . (encyclopedia.com)
• The bowhead whale belongs to the family Balaenidae and genus Balaena . (nammco.no)
• The North Pacific, North Atlantic and Southern right whales are all members of the family Balaenidae . (wikipedia.org)
• The following cladogram of the family Balaenidae serves to illustrate the current scientific consensus as to the relationships between the North Pacific right whale and the other members of its family. (wikipedia.org)

Population of bowhead whales2

• This population of bowhead whales was hunted almost to extinction in the 1600s and was recently estimated at about 200 animals. (phys.org)
• Scientists recorded a population of bowhead whales singing 184 different melodies over a span of three years. (sciencefriday.com)

Dead bowhead whale2

• A dead bowhead whale carcass is shown on a beach roughly 60 kilometres outside Kugaaruk, Nunavut, in a handout photo. (vancourier.com)
• In 2007, a dead bowhead whale being studied by scientists was found to have something very strange embedded within it. (listverse.com)

Balaenoptera4

• Animals) the largest mammal: a widely distributed bluish-grey whalebone whale, Sibbaldus (or Balaenoptera ) musculus , closely related and similar to the rorquals: family Balaenopteridae . (thefreedictionary.com)
• In contrast, no clear evolution was detected neither for sperm whale Physeter macrocephalus nor for Minke whale Balaenoptera acusrostrata . (aps-polar.org)
• An important late summer aggregation of fin whales Balaenoptera physalus, little auks Alle alle and Brünnich's guillemots Uria lomvia in the eastern Greenland Sea and Fram Strait: influence of hydrographic structures. (aps-polar.org)
• Baleen whales are the largest whales, and include the world's largest animal, the blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) . (newworldencyclopedia.org)

Eubalaena6

• The right whales were thus confirmed to be in a separate genus, Eubalaena. (wikipedia.org)
• Before 2000, right whales in the North Pacific were considered conspecific with right whales in the North Atlantic and Southern Hemisphere and all described as Eubalaena glacialis in the scientific literature. (wikipedia.org)
• Eventually, it was recognised that bowheads and right whales were in fact different, and John Edward Gray proposed the genus Eubalaena for the right whale in 1864. (wikipedia.org)
• In 2002, the Scientific Committee of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) accepted Rosenbaum's findings, and recommended that the Eubalaena nomenclature be retained for this genus. (wikipedia.org)
• sperm whale ( Physeter macrocephalus ), Amazon river dolphin ( Inia geoffrensis ), Blainville's beaked whale ( Mesoplodon densirostris ), southern right whale ( Eubalaena australis ), narwhal ( Monodon monoceros ), humpback whale ( Megaptera novaeangliae ), killer whale ( Orcinus orca ), gray whale ( Eschrichtius robustus ) and harbor porpoise ( Phocoena phocoena ). (wikipedia.org)
• North Atlantic right whales ( Eubalaena glacialis ) are highly endangered and frequently exposed to a myriad of human activities and stressors in their industrialized habitat. (frontiersin.org)

Humpback Whale2

• If humpback whale song is like classical music, bowheads are jazz," said lead author Kate Stafford, an oceanographer at the UW's Applied Physics Laboratory. (phys.org)
• Cetaceans produce a number of vocalizations , notably the clicks and whistles of dolphins and the moaning songs of the humpback whale . (wikipedia.org)

Recognized that bowheads and right whales1

• Eventually, it was recognized that bowheads and right whales were different, but there was still no strong consensus as to whether they shared a single genus or two. (wikipedia.org)

Sperm whales4

• The parvorder of Odontocetes - the toothed whales - include sperm whales, beaked whales, killer whales, dolphins and porpoises. (wikipedia.org)
• Teeth are shaped like cones (dolphins and sperm whales), spades ( porpoises ), pegs ( belugas ), tusks ( narwhals ) or variable (beaked whale males). (wikipedia.org)
• 2 Christensen I, Haug T, øien N. Review of the biology, exploitation and present abundance of large baleen whales and sperm whales in Norwegian and adjacent waters. (aps-polar.org)
• Whales are separated into the toothed whales, Odontocetes (which includes dolphins , porpoises , narwhals , beaked whales and sperm whales ), and the whalebone, or baleen, whales, also called Mysticetes . (conservapedia.com)

Waters4

• Bowhead whales migrate seasonally within these waters, between summer feeding areas and wintering areas. (grandespirito.it)
• 82] Bowheads seek the ice and shallow waters' safety when threatened by killer whales. (com.vn)
• The cold waters slow the bowhead whales to the point that their life is extended, possibly up to 250 years-though due to extensive whaling in the last two centuries, it is difficult to prove this extreme lifespan. (mentalfloss.com)
• What about polar bears, seals, and whales that swim in icy waters? (eduplace.com)

Beluga whale2

• From one point of view, we can never know if the beluga whale really loves music. (listverse.com)
• Any doubt that beluga whales enjoy music could probably be dispelled by the above video of a mariachi band playing to a captive beluga whale who, scientific objectivity aside, seems to be loving it. (listverse.com)

Narwhal1

• The audio data could help researchers tell the difference between narwhal vocalizations and those of neighboring beluga whales. (thefreedictionary.com)

Zooplankton2

• Bowhead whales are filter feeders that eat huge amounts of zooplankton. (scientificamerican.com)
• Whereas ringed seals eat fish and animals that are higher in the food chain, bowhead whales eat zooplankton. (nationalpost.com)

Migrate2

• Some 50,000 beluga whales migrate into the Hudson Bay and the series of rivers that drain into the Bay each July and August in order to feed, give birth and to shed their outer most layer of skin. (frontiersnorth.com)
• Endangered bowheads and many other whales migrate through the area. (nrdc.org)

Whale's5

• The scientists said the bowhead whale's genome may also help explain physiological adaptations related to size. (scientificamerican.com)
• The name bowhead is associated with the whale's high, arched lower jaw that looks like an archer's bow. (nammco.no)
• The right whale's callosities appear white due to large colonies of cyamids ( whale lice ). (wikipedia.org)
• Scientists actually can't agree on the bowhead whale's maximum lifespan. (listverse.com)
• A bowhead whale's lifetime (1:17-1:43 min. (nationalgeographic.org)

Populations7

• Of the five stocks of bowhead populations, three are listed as "endangered", one as "vulnerable", and one as "lower risk, conservation dependent" according to the IUCN Red List. (wikipedia.org)
• Populations were reduced by historical whaling but the Eastern Canada-West Greenland stock is increasing and new evidence shows possible increases in the Spitzbergen stock as well. (nammco.no)
• The status of the other bowhead populations is less well known. (animalcorner.co.uk)
• disagreed, based on data from their genetic study of DNA samples from each of the whale populations. (wikipedia.org)
• The northern Pacific and Atlantic populations are also distinct, with the North Pacific right whale being more closely related to the southern right whale than to the North Atlantic right whale. (wikipedia.org)
• It is believed that the right whale populations first split because of the joining of North and South America . (wikipedia.org)
• This novel study illustrates the value of using baleen to reconstruct recent temporal profiles and as a comparative matrix in which key physiological indicators of individual whales can be used to understand the impacts of anthropogenic activity on threatened whale populations. (frontiersin.org)

Caribou1

• Any harm from Shell's activities to our resources, including bowhead whales, seals, fish and caribou, threatens our food and our health. (globalresearch.ca)

Lifespan3

• The bowhead whale Balaena mysticetus is the longest-lived mammal known, with an estimated maximal lifespan in excess of two hundred years. (fightaging.org)
• The lifespan of a Bowhead whale was once thought to be 60 to 70 years, similar to other whales. (animalcorner.co.uk)
• Lifespan clock' reveals bowhead whales live to 268. (telegraph.co.uk)

Rorquals4

• 41], The lineages of rorquals and right whales split almost 20 mya. (com.vn)
• Whaling rorquals was not effective until the harpoon cannon was invented in the late 1860s. (com.vn)
• Unlike their cousins the rorquals (including the blue whale and the fin whale), bowhead whales do not feed by gulping prey-laden water and then expelling it, catching food on the plates as the water is ejected. (mentalfloss.com)
• Caperea might be the sister group to balaenopterids (rorquals) and Eschrichtius (gray whale) (Arnason and Gulberg 1994), or to balaenids (Gatesy 1998). (tolweb.org)

Mysticeti3

• The two parvorders, baleen whales (Mysticeti) and toothed whales (Odontoceti), are thought to have diverged around thirty-four million years ago. (wikipedia.org)
• There are two kinds of whales: toothed whales of the suborder Odontoceti, and whalebone (baleen) whales of the suborder Mysticeti. (conservapedia.com)
• Baleen whales comprise the Mysticeti, one of two suborders of the mammalian order Cetacea , the other suborder being the Odontoceti, or toothed whales (dolphins, porpoises, and various whales). (newworldencyclopedia.org)

Minke2

• Comparison of the bowhead whale transcriptome with that of the related minke whale and other mammals enabled us to identify candidate genes for the exceptional longevity of the bowhead whale. (fightaging.org)
• On July 5th alone, the Monterey Bay Whale Watch reported sightings of "12 blue whales, 40 humpback whales, 400 Risso's dolphins, 300 northern right whale dolphins, 250 Pacific white-sided dolphins, and two minke whales. (commondreams.org)

20182

• On a global scale, bowhead whales are listed as 'Least Concern' on the IUCN Red List (2018). (nammco.no)
• Rozhnov, V. 2018-02-24 00:00:00 Epidermal molting in the bowhead whales that regularly enter Ulbanskiy Bay of the Sea of Okhotsk in summer has been reported and proven by histological methods. (deepdyve.com)

Dorsal5

• Unlike most cetaceans, the bowhead does not have a dorsal fin - an adaptation for spending much time under sea-surface ice. (wikipedia.org)
• The bowhead whale has no dorsal fin unlike the majority of other baleen whales. (nammco.no)
• Bowhead whales are dark-coloured whales with no dorsal fin and a strongly bowed lower jaw and narrow upper jaw. (animalcorner.co.uk)
• A stocky dark-colored whale without a dorsal fin, it can grow to 20 m (66 ft) in length. (twistedsifter.com)
• Like other right whales, the southern right whale is readily distinguished from others by the callosities on its head, a broad back without a dorsal fin , and a long arching mouth that begins above the eye. (wikipedia.org)

Cetacea1

• Whales are members of the order Cetacea , which also includes dolphins and porpoises . (newworldencyclopedia.org)

Genome8

• Scientists on Monday unveiled the genetic blueprint for the bowhead whale, a genome chock full of clues behind this creature's exceptional longevity and remarkable disease resistance. (scientificamerican.com)
• This is the biggest animal whose genome has been sequenced thus far and the first big whale to be sequenced,' said University of Liverpool geneticist João Pedro de Magalhães, who led the study published in the scientific journal Cell Reports. (scientificamerican.com)
• He said the genome study detected changes in one specific gene involved in the body's temperature regulation that may be related to metabolic differences in whale cells. (scientificamerican.com)
• The bowhead whale genome is slightly smaller than the human genome and the typical mammalian genome. (scientificamerican.com)
• The Methuselah Foundation , for example, presently provides a modest grant to a UK research group to sequence the genome of bowhead whale . (fightaging.org)
• Here, we report the first genome-wide gene expression analyses of the bowhead whale, based on the de novo assembly of its transcriptome . (fightaging.org)
• Recently, Maley and his team sequenced the genome of humpback whales - which rarely get cancer - and discovered they have only two copies of TP53. (phoenixmag.com)
• A high-coverage genome of the bowhead whale ( Balaena mysticetus ), the longest-lived mammal. (senescence.info)

North Slope B1

• Read online Fifth Conference on the Biology of the Bowhead Whale Balaena Mysticetus written by North Slope Borough (Alaska), published by which was released on 1990. (ebooksdownloads.xyz)

Beaufort Sea7

• This study examined feeding of bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) taken by Alaska Natives at Barrow (western Beaufort Sea), Nuiqsut (central Alaskan Beaufort Sea) and Kaktovik (eastern Alaskan Beaufort Sea) during 1969-2000. (grandespirito.it)
• Bowhead whale feeding behavior has been observed in the summer and fall in the Canadian Beaufort Sea (Wiirsig et al. (grandespirito.it)
• Bowhead whale feeding in the eastern Alaskan Beaufort Sea' was conducted during 1997-2000 (Richardson and Thomson, 2002). (grandespirito.it)
• On the Beaufort Sea, outside the Inupiat village of Kaktovik, Alaska a polar bear takes a break from gnawing on whale meat. (nationalpost.com)
• We addressed these questions by applying non-parametric univariate tests and linear mixed models to behavioral data collected by aerial observation of bowheads in the Beaufort Sea from 1980 to 2000. (int-res.com)
• Robertson FC, Koski WR, Thomas TA, Richardson WJ, Würsig B, Trites AW (2013) Seismic operations have variable effects on dive-cycle behavior of bowhead whales in the Beaufort Sea. (int-res.com)
• Nuiqsut whalers hunt for bowhead whales in the Beaufort Sea during the fall. (globalresearch.ca)

Filter feeders2

• Bowhead whales are filter feeders. (nammco.no)
• Bowhead whales are filter feeders, feeding by swimming forward with mouth wide open. (grandespirito.it)

Larger than males4

• On average, female bowheads are larger than males. (wikipedia.org)
• Bowhead whales may reach lengths of up to 20 metres and females are larger than males. (animalcorner.co.uk)
• Like other baleen whales, female North Pacific right whales are larger than males. (wikipedia.org)
• Baleen whales are generally larger than toothed whales, and females are larger than males. (newworldencyclopedia.org)

Behavior7

• The footage provides one answer to the mystery of why whales return to Cumberland Sound, Nunavut, every summer, and helps explain some unusual behavior that has been noted historically by Inuit and commercial whalers living and working in the area. (eurekalert.org)
• Bowhead whales do this behavior in the winter, during 24-hour darkness of the polar winter, in 95 to 100 percent sea ice cover. (phys.org)
• This behavior is much more similar to the basking shark than to most baleen whales. (mentalfloss.com)
• The Bowhead Whale: Balaena mysticetus: Biology and Human Interactions covers bowhead biology from their anatomy and behavior, to conservation, distribution, ecology and evolution. (ebooksdownloads.xyz)
• Fin whales are among the largest predators on earth, yet little is known about their foraging behavior at depth. (biologists.org)
• ABSTRACT: The surfacing, respiration and diving (SRD) behavior of bowhead whales Balaena mysticetus changes upon exposure to seismic operations. (int-res.com)
• Overall, our results suggest that changes in the behavior exhibited by bowhead whales exposed to seismic operations are context-dependent (i.e. responses to seismic operations depend on both the circumstance and activity of the whale). (int-res.com)

Seals2

• but a few, like the killer whale, feed on large mammals and birds, such as penguins and seals. (wikipedia.org)
• an animal that lives most of its life in the ocean but breathes air and gives birth to live young, such as whales and seals. (nationalgeographic.org)

HUMANS5

• Bowhead whales weigh between 50 and 100 tons when fully grown and have probably 1,000 times as many cells as humans, but they apparently have a anti-tumor response at the cell level that is far more efficient than what is found in humans,' said biologist Mads Peter Heide-Jørgensen of the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources and the University of Copenhagen. (scientificamerican.com)
• 121], Whaling by humans has existed since the Stone Age. (com.vn)
• Humans possess several different opsin genes that provide excellent color vision, but whales and their relatives were thought to only possess one. (phys.org)
• Encapsulated fat necrosis has been reported in other baleen whales, humans, and cows. (int-res.com)
• The mere existence of whales suggests that is possible to suppress cancer many-fold better than is done in humans," Caulin and Maley write. (discovermagazine.com)

Males2

• But little is known about the bowhead whales' singing: whether only males make these sounds, whether individuals can share songs, and, most importantly, why their tune changes all the time. (phys.org)
• Male cetacean strategies for reproductive success vary between herding females, defending potential mates from other males, or whale song which attracts mates. (wikipedia.org)

Porpoises2

• 3 Klinowska M. Dolphins, porpoises and whales of the world: the IUCN red data book. (aps-polar.org)
• This suborder includes dolphins and porpoises as well as whales. (newworldencyclopedia.org)

Killer whale2

• The photos also show rake marks on the whales' sides, which Ferguson said could be from killer whale teeth. (vancourier.com)
• Ferguson described how a killer whale might bite a bowhead's tail to keep it from swimming away or ram into its side to cause internal damage. (vancourier.com)

Blue whales12

• For example, blue whales were abundant in nearly all oceans until the beginning of the twentieth century, but over the course of forty years, were hunted nearly to extinction . (newworldencyclopedia.org)
• Last month began with a once-in-a-lifetime sighting in Monterey Bay, California, startlingly close to shore, of blue whales. (commondreams.org)
• Strictly speaking, there should be no blue whales. (discovermagazine.com)
• Blue whales can weigh over a thousand times more than a human being. (discovermagazine.com)
• Aleah Caulin of the University of Pennsylvania and Carlo Maley of the University of California, San Francisco, have done some calculations of the risk of cancer for blue whales thanks to their huge size. (discovermagazine.com)
• We don't know a lot about cancer in blue whales, because blue whale oncology wards would be a wee bit awkward for everyone involved. (discovermagazine.com)
• They found that the huge size of the animals means that by the age of fifty, about half of all blue whales should have colorectal cancer. (discovermagazine.com)
• It's likely that blue whales should have far higher rates of other kinds of cancer, too. (discovermagazine.com)
• Blue whales do get cancer , but it's hard to believe that they get it at the rates that come out of Caulin and Maley's calculations. (discovermagazine.com)
• Blue whales are known to live well over a century. (discovermagazine.com)
• If blue whales really did get cancer as fast as the models would suggest, they ought to be extinct. (discovermagazine.com)
• The failure of the model means that blue whales must have some secrets for fighting cancer. (discovermagazine.com)

Barrow2

• Tissue samples and morphometric data were collected from 64 bowhead whales landed during the 1998-2002 subsistence hunts in Barrow and Kaktovik, Alaska. (ebooksdownloads.xyz)
• Native Alaskans flensing a bowhead whale on the beach near Barrow, Alaska, U.S. (britannica.com)

Greenland8

• According to whaling captain William Scoresby Jr., the longest bowhead he measured was 17.7 m (58 ft) long, while the longest measurement he had ever heard of was of a 20.4 m (67 ft) whale caught at Godhavn, Greenland, in early 1813. (wikipedia.org)
• 2006). Tracking of whales with satellite transmitters in West Greenland in winter has shown whales to travel fast through dense pack ice. (nammco.no)
• Commercial whaling starting in 1611 near Svalbard and Greenland and wiped out herds of the slow-growing whales, and then moved on to new areas. (animalcorner.co.uk)
• Greenland Whale Pelvis A clip art image of a Greenland whale (close relative to the bowhead) pelvis for students to cut out. (north-slope.org)
• She first detected bowhead whales singing off the other side of Greenland in 2007. (phys.org)
• A previous study by Stafford of the Spitsbergen whales off west Greenland reported in 2012 that the whales were singing continuously during the winter breeding season, the first hint that there may be a healthy population in that area. (phys.org)
• In order to monitor the population development of bowhead whales in West Greenland biopsy samples will be collected in Disko Bay to allow for mark-recapture abundance estimation based on genetics. (isaaffik.org)
• This study provides three lines of evidence from recordings made in 2008 and 2009 in Disko Bay, Western Greenland, strongly indicating that bowhead whales are capable of simultaneous dual frequency sound production. (syr.edu)

Subcutaneous7

• 2015. Seasonal and ontogenetic variation in subcutaneous adipose of the bowhead whale ( Balaena mysticetus ) . (north-slope.org)
• Check out how many calories in Alaskan Bowhead Whale with Subcutaneous Fat. (fitclick.com)
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• Multiple measuring units converter for converting all amounts of WHALE,BOWHEAD,SKN & SUBCUTANEOUS FATMUKTUK(ALASKA NATIVE) with one tool . (traditionaloven.com)
• ABSTRACT: We describe a case series of encapsulated fat necrosis with subcutaneous, abdominal, and thoracic locations in 7 subsistence-harvested bowhead whales Balaena mysticetus . (int-res.com)

19933

• Adult bowhead whales measure 12-18 m in length with some individuals reaching lengths of ~20 m (Haldiman & Tarpley 1993). (nammco.no)
• However, discoveries of antique ivory spear points in living whales in 1993, 1995 and 1999 have triggered further research based on structures in the whales eye, leading to the reliable conclusion that at least some individuals have lived to be 150 - 200 years old (another report has said a female at the age of 90 was allegedly still reproductive). (animalcorner.co.uk)
• 1993. The Bowhead Whale . (north-slope.org)

Fram Strait1

• A bowhead whale surfaces in Fram Strait, to the northwest of Norway. (phys.org)

Aboriginal subsistence1

• The U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service has published NMFS' aboriginal subsistence whaling quota for bowhead whales that NMFS has assigned to the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission, and the limitations on the use of the quota deriving from regulations of the International Whaling Commission. (thecre.com)

Krill2

• It seems that the abundance of krill, the tiny shrimp-like creatures that the whales feed on, attracted about 100 of the blues. (commondreams.org)
• The Chukchi and Beaufort Seas are remarkably rich in krill, and home to the endangered bowhead whale. (commondreams.org)

Mammal on the planet1

• The bowhead whale is the longest-living mammal on the planet and can reach an impressive age of around 200 years. (nammco.no)

Subsistence hunts1

• Alaska Natives continue to kill small numbers of bowhead whales in subsistence hunts each year. (animalcorner.co.uk)

Slow swimmers2

• Bowhead whales are relatively slow swimmers. (nammco.no)
• Bowhead whales are slow swimmers and usually travel alone or in small herds of up to six animals. (animalcorner.co.uk)

Scientists5

• Scientists don't know how whales will adapt to the changing environment. (eurekalert.org)
• Some scientists have speculated that the whales could live even longer than that. (listverse.com)
• This was quite a shocking discovery, as up to this point scientists believed that humpback whales were generally unsociable towards each other. (listverse.com)
• Scientists have found that a genetic mutation in the eyes of right whales that hampers their ability to see in bright light may make them more susceptible to fatal entanglements in fishing gear, one of the major causes of death for this critically endangered mammal. (phys.org)
• Unexpectedly, however, the cone opsin mutation thought by scientists to hinder operation of the retina may actually enhance dim-light vision in these whales-a finding that provides insight into the effects of mutations on the health and function of the human retina. (phys.org)

Longest baleen of any whale2

• The plates are dark gray-to-black and are the longest baleen of any whale, measuring up to 14 feet (4.3 m) in length and 12 inches (30 cm) in width. (grandespirito.it)
• In fact, the bowhead has the longest baleen of any whale. (guinnessworldrecords.com)

Mysticetus6

• Serum samples from 21 of 36 Eskimo harvested bowhead whales ( Balaena mysticetus ) were positive by virus neutralization (50% endpoint titer ≥1:28 and/or 100% endpoint titer ≥1:20) for antibodies to at least one virus serotype from the calicivirus family, vesicular exanthema of swine virus (VESV) and San Miguel sea lion virus (SMSV). (bioone.org)
• 1985. Epidermal and papillary dermal characteristics of the bowhead whale ( Balaena mysticetus ). (north-slope.org)
• 2014. The anatomy of the larynx of the bowhead whale, Balaena mysticetus , and its sound-producing functions . (north-slope.org)
• Bowhead whales Balaena mysticetus in the Okhotsk Sea. (deepdyve.com)
• Balaena glacialis (all of the right whales) and Balaena mysticetus (the bowheads). (wikipedia.org)
• The largest mouth in the world belongs to the bowhead whale ( Balaena mysticetus ) and can measure 5 m (16 ft) long, 4 m (12 ft) high and 2.5 m (8 ft) wide. (guinnessworldrecords.com)

Skims through the water2

• While feeding, a bowhead whale skims through the water with its mouth open. (grandespirito.it)
• While feeding, the whale opens its mouth and skims through the water. (guinnessworldrecords.com)

Molt1

• Fortune hopes to conduct further studies to determine whether bowhead whales molt primarily during summer months, and throughout their range. (eurekalert.org)

Prey from the water1

• Its baleen is the longest of that of any whale, at 3 m (9.8 ft), and is used to strain tiny prey from the water. (wikipedia.org)

Attacked by killer whales1

• Steve Ferguson, a research scientist with Fisheries and Oceans Canada, looked at Kukkuvak's photos and said the bowheads could have been attacked by killer whales. (vancourier.com)

Harvest4

• This quota and other applicable limitations govern the harvest of bowhead whales by members of the AEWC. (thecre.com)
• When hunters bring whales back to the community, about 65-70 people drag the whale onto the ice, where they work all day to harvest the meat. (wikipedia.org)
• Read online National Marine Fisheries Service Field Studies Relating to the Bowhead Whale Harvest in Alaska 1974 written by Clifford H. Fiscus,Willman M. Marquette, published by which was released on 1974. (ebooksdownloads.xyz)
• Pressures continued to harvest whales even when the numbers were severely declined, but the human responsibility to better understand and conserve these animals had led to various protective measures by the late twentieth century. (newworldencyclopedia.org)

Polar7

• American whalemen called them the steeple-top, polar whale, or Russia or Russian whale. (wikipedia.org)
• After scanning the area in case the carcasses had attracted polar bears, the group took off only to find three more beached bowheads. (vancourier.com)
• Before commercial whaling, there were over 50,000 bowhead whales in the north polar region (estimated). (animalcorner.co.uk)
• He sings far beneath the ice in the dark of a polar winter, so maybe it s about time we listened to the incredible songs that this whale concocts every winter, every month and possibly each day! (earthtimes.org)
• Mange av disse er fritt tilgjengelig på nett, blant annet vårt vitenskapelige tidsskrift « Polar Research » og en del rapporter. (npolar.no)
• As sea ice melts, polar bears living near the Yukon-Alaska border are coming ashore to devour whale carcasses left behind by hunters. (nationalpost.com)
• During whaling season, "there's a lot of good food there, if you're a polar bear," he said. (nationalpost.com)