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Examples for "bowhead"
Examples for "bowhead"
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But my favorite example of a long-lived creature is the bowhead whale.
2
Scientists have stumbled upon a secret hideaway used by bowhead whales.
3
Another complication is that it is difficult to count bowhead whales.
4
To their surprise, they sighted a number of bowhead whales swimming in the polynya.
5
In the wider world it is deeply controversial, because it comes from bowhead whales.
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But my favorite example of a long-lived creature is the bowhead whale.
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The former vertebrate record-holder was a bowhead whale estimated to be 211 years old.
3
The bowhead whale has the largest mouth of any animal, but it does not use it to bite.
4
Then, one day he came upon the carcass of an immense bowhead whale far north on the Alaskan shore.
5
Until now it's the bowhead whale you've hunted, and it won't risk going past the warm waters of the equator.
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In another respect, the sperm is very different from the Greenland whale.
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The Greenland whale is less in size than the sperm-its length being about 60 feet.
3
The sperm whale we had taken is very different to the Greenland whale of the North.
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I believe you wish to make some additional statement with regard to the Greenland whale fishery?-Yes.
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Nay; what thing, for example, is there in the Greenland whale's anatomy more striking than his baleen?
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Yet we have seen that by his baleen it is impossible correctly to classify the Greenland whale.
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The Greenland whale-oil is next in quality.
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And here be it said, that the Greenland whale is an usurper upon the throne of the seas.
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A gull darted along the water, and in the far distance I heard the bellow of the huge Greenland whale.
10
Some pretend to see a difference between the Greenland whale of the English and the right whale of the Americans.
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Then, this same humpbacked whale and the Greenland whale, each of these has baleen; but there again the similitude ceases.
12
These creatures are only balaeaopterons, provided with dorsal fins; and, like the cachalots, are generally much smaller than the Greenland whale.
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But Scoresby knew nothing and says nothing of the great sperm whale, compared with which the Greenland whale is almost unworthy mentioning.
14
In destroying the southern whale (like the Greenland whale, an inoffensive creature), your traders do a culpable action, Master Land.
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What would become of a Greenland whale, say, in those shuddering, icy seas of the North, if unsupplied with his cosy surtout?
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The Greenland whale is one of the most wonderful animals in the world, and the baleen, or whalebone, one of its greatest peculiarities.
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