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Whales 'singing pop songs'  -  05 Aug 2009
New Zealand HeraldBut the special thing about the bowhead whale's song is that they sometimes sing with 'more than one voice'." They produce two different songs or sounds,

A whale of a love song  -  ‎Jul 30, 2009‎
The Copenhagen PostResearchers have discovered that the song of the Bowhead whale, also known as Greenland whale, is comprised of two different sounds blended together,

Bowhead whales sing love songs in different voices  -  ‎Aug 3, 2009‎
Gaea TimesIt wasn't that many years ago that the bowhead whale was written off as extinct in the waters off Greenland where University of Copenhagen (UC) has its

Love Songs of Bowhead Whales: Whales Sings With 'More Than One Voice'  -  ‎Jul 29, 2009‎
Science Daily (press release) (press release)ScienceDaily (July 29, 2009) — It wasn't that many years ago that the bowhead whale was written off as extinct in the waters around Greenland and especially

Three summer bowhead whale hunts set to go  -  ‎Jul 13, 2009‎
Northern News Services (subscription)NUNAVUT - Cape Dorset, Kugaaruk and Rankin Inlet have been chosen as the three communities to hold bowhead whale hunts in Nunavut this summer.

Diary from the top of the world  -  ‎Jul 19, 2009‎
AdelaidenowAnd still they are allowed to kill one bowhead whale a year in the Canadian Arctic. If you're not a bird lover when you set out on an Arctic expedition,

Inuit to celebrate anniversary of bowhead sanctuary agreement  -  ‎Jul 22, 2009‎
CBC.caThe federal government has not finalized the creation of a bowhead whale sanctuary off the Baffin Island coast, so Inuit are planning a party next month to

Plankton crucial for ocean mixing: More reasons why we need to ...  -  ‎Aug 1, 2009‎
Examiner.com...as their absence impacted the lives and breeding cycles of food fish, shellfish, whales (like the critically endangered Bowhead whale that feeds on

Time doesn't fade Barrow man's love for muktuk eating competition  -  ‎Jul 18, 2009‎
Fairbanks Daily News-MinerAccording to calorielab.com, a one-pound serving of muktuk from a bowhead whale packs a whopping 2129 calories and 208 grams of fat, respectively twice and

RI teens bound for a troubled Arctic  -  ‎Jul 29, 2009‎
Providence Journal...north,� a former Hudson Bay Company trading post and an area that alumni of previous expeditions are working to protect as a bowhead whale sanctuary.

Iñupiaq work to retain cultural heritage in the face of global warming  -  25 Mar 2009
University of DelawareBowhead whale hunting is an important Inupiat tradition. The whale lies at the center of Inupiat culture. The blanket toss celebrates a successful whale

Lois Norrgard: Unlearned lessons from the Exxon spill  -  ‎Mar 24, 2009‎
Minneapolis Star TribuneAs the Arctic environment melts at a rapidly accelerating pace, Arctic wildlife, including the threatened polar bear, the endangered bowhead whale,

Hungry orcas gorge on Nunavut’s marine mammals  -  ‎Mar 19, 2009‎
Nunatsiaq NewsSome killer whales appear to eat only fish, but hunters have seen killer whales eating narwhal, beluga, bowhead whale and seal. And killer whales, which can

March 20 lecture focuses on global warming, Alaska's Iñupiaq people  -  ‎Mar 4, 2009‎
University of DelawareThe bowhead whale is central to the life and culture of the Iñupiaq people of northern Alaska. Whale rib bones mark the graves in Point Hope Graveyard.

Beluga whale listing is scientifically sound  -  ‎Mar 12, 2009‎
Seward Phoenix Log...in the Arctic despite the fact that both Steller’s and spectacled eiders are listed as threatened and the bowhead whale is listed as endangered.

Faculty Quotes  -  ‎Mar 13, 2009‎
Virginia Law WeeklyM. Doran: There is a provision [in the tax code] allowing a charitable deduction for money given to whaling captains engaged in sustainable bowhead whale

Aging Lecture Gives Insight Into Increased Lifespan  -  ‎Mar 14, 2009‎
Tyler Morning TelegraphDr. Austad pointed out that the goal is reachable because animals such as parrots, the rockfish, bowhead whale, sea urchin and tortoise live well over 100

Nunavut wildlife board considers hiking bowhead whale hunt quota  -  Feb 11, 2009
CBC.ca,The Eastern Arctic's bowhead whale population could sustain a hunt of up to 18 whales a year, officials with the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans

NTI demands unrestricted Nunavut bowhead hunt  -  Feb 12, 2009
Nunatsiaq News,Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. wants to do away with limits on the Nunavut bowhead whale hunt. But will Nunavut face a nasty international backlash from

Protecting a Whaling Culture  -  Feb 11, 2009
Huffington Post,Kenny placed a tray of "muktuk" - raw, frozen bowhead whale meat - on the kitchen table. He sliced little finger-size pieces for me with his ulu - a

University Libraries To Discuss Climate Adjustment of Native ...  -  Feb 2, 2009
UNM Today,Identifying themselves as the “People of the Whales�, the Inupiaq people rely on the bowhead whale to maintain their lifestyle and culture through the

Marine scientists to assess environment before offshore drilling ...  -  Feb 17, 2009
EurekAlert (press release),..."This is a sensitive environmental region from many aspects, considering the importance of bowhead whale migration, ice retreats, threats to polar bears,

Endangered Species Act is good law that works in Alaska  -  Feb 11, 2009
Anchorage Daily News,...in the Arctic despite the fact that both Steller's and spectacled eiders are listed as threatened and the bowhead whale is listed as endangered.

United States Protects America's Arctic From Industrial Fishing  -  Feb 5, 2009
PR Newswire (press release),Many of these animals, including the polar bear, bowhead whale and spectacled eider, are listed as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act

Pulling them all together  -  Feb 4, 2009
Anchorage Press,So are a mountain goat and a person posing under arched jawbones from a bowhead whale. There are puffins and loons, a fox, and a Chilkat blanket pattern.

EPA study found that Red Dog Mine benefited region  -  Feb 7, 2009
Anchorage Daily News,We rely on the bearded seal, walrus, beluga, bowhead whale, fish, waterfowl, berries and greens. All scientific studies indicate it is safe to continue to

Minister gives nod to Inuit bear knowledge  -  Jan 29, 2009
Nunatsiaq News,..."In the past, Inuit always considered the WWF Canada as our friend," he said, recalling that the two had cooperated on bowhead whale management issues.

Assembling whale skeleton a giant task  -  Nov 14, 2008
South Coast Today,Ms. Shaw said she would like to see the museum make room someday, some way for a bowhead whale, "an important species for the whaling industry," alongside

Pictured: A photographer's very close encounter with a majestic ...  -  27 Sep 2008
Daily Mail,Bowhead Whale, which has its own genus, Balaena also belongs to the Balaenidae family, and so is sometimes considered a right whale.

Published Wednesday, September 3, 2008, by Northern News Services ...  -  Sep 3, 2008
Northern News Services (subscription),Whale Cove residents had a rare visitor last month: a bowhead whale. "We have belugas, but that's it. To see a bowhead whale so close to shore,

The whaling perspective  -  Sep 12, 2008
Petroleum NewsMMS duly obliged and the agency has now published a research report called “Quantitative description of potential impacts of OCS activities on bowhead whale

Canada Preserves Arctic Wilderness for Whales, Bears, Birds  -  Sep 4, 2008
Environment News ServiceThe Niginganiq (nee geen ga nik) National Wildlife Area protects key bowhead whale habitat, and the Akpait (ak pa eet) and Qaqulluit (ka koo loo eet)

Restoration complete on whaling station  -  Sep 25, 2008
Northern News Services (subscription),...by foreign whalers in the 1920s, local hunters continued to use it and in 1998 it was used it as a base camp for the community's last bowhead whale hunt.

Arctic ice melt not quite a record  -  Sep 17, 2008
San Francisco Chronicle,The villagers had just harpooned a 23-foot bowhead whale, the first of the three a year that they are allowed to take under subsistence agreements.

Greenland whale hunt 'commercial'  -  Sep 8, 2008
Russia Journal,Animal welfare campaigners say Greenland's whaling, held under rules permitting subsistence hunting, has become too... commercial in character.

Warmed-over pact creates three new sanctuaries  -  Aug 28, 2008
Nunatsiaq News,Those include three new wildlife areas: a long-awaited bowhead whale sanctuary at Isabella Bay near Clyde River and two new protected areas near

Venture Arctic & The Eco-Revolution  -  Sep 23, 2008
Green Muze,You can blow the scent of a beached bowhead whale to a hungry wolverine, melt snow to feed epic herds of caribou, or freeze over the ocean to protect

Sam Branson's Arctic diary  -  Sep 2, 2008
Mirror.co.uk,There were two large fin whales and a bowhead whale swimming off the bow of the boat. They would disappear under the icy water before coming up to spray the

USC Upstate’s Natural Sciences and Engineering Department ...  -  Aug 29, 2008
USC Upstate,Dr. Romanek will discuss using stable isotopes to investigate whale ecology in a seminar titled “Arctic Ecology of the Bowhead Whale (Balaena mysticetus)�.

FACTBOX-Alaska's environment and green issues  -  Sep 10, 2008
Reuters AlertNet,...million acre (7.7 million hectare) refuge is home to 45 species of land and marine mammals, ranging in size from the pygmy shrew to the bowhead whale.

Hardly an Earth Mother  -  Sep 7, 2008
Tampabay.com,I'd like her to see the endangered bowhead whale, the beluga whales, the bearded, ringed, and spotted seals. I'd like her to see polar bears.

Kangiqsujuaq gets first bowhead in a century  -  14 Aug 2008
Nunatsiaq News,KANGIQSUJUAQ - Noah Annahatak thrust a harpoon into a bowhead whale Aug. 10, marking the first bowhead kill on Nunavik's Hudson Strait coast in more than a

Open ANWR Already! The case for drilling—and more energy production  -  14 Aug 2008
Reason Online,I saw a bowhead whale breaching and little sea otters (once nearly extinct) in Seward Harbour during one afternoon boat trip out into the bay.

Around Nunavut  -  14 Aug 2008
Nunatsiaq News,In 1996, he wrote a lengthy commentary for Nunatsiaq News about the failed bowhead whale hunt held that year near Repulse Bay. In the Feb.

A whale of a snack  -  Jul 26, 2008
Salt Lake Tribune,By Kimberly Miller Part of a bowhead whale fluke is cut up during a Nalukataq in Barrow, Alaska. Barrow, Alaska » I hesitantly bit into the piece of

Music festival marks revival of bowhead hunt  -  Aug 7, 2008
Nunatsiaq News,KANGIQSUJUAQ - The bowhead whale surfaced, but Mani Kutaak, harpoon in hand, froze with fear. The whale was gigantic, but his brother killed it.

Delegation introduces bills to protect whaling rights of Alaska ...  -  Jul 31, 2008
Arctic Sounder,...“This legislation is crucial to insure that the Alaska Native subsistence bowhead whale quota will continue to be set, even if the International Whaling

A man for all species  -  Jul 27, 2008
Indianapolis Star,Answer: It has to do with the status of the bowhead whale population that is harvested by the Alaskan Eskimo communities on the North Slope.

In world of thinning ice, Arctic scientists view life and death  -  Jul 24, 2008
Dutch Harbor Fisherman,Sekiguchi was excited to see her first bowhead whale on the cruise. The sighting was due in part to having all the right equipment searching for whales.

In rural Alaska, fuel costs now matter of survival  -  Aug 6, 2008
The Associated PressThere are ceremonies in the center of town to celebrate a successful hunt for bowhead whale. The captain of the boat is obliged to share his bounty with

Community profile: Kivalina  -  Jul 30, 2008
Anchorage Daily News (subscription),...village where about 97 percent of the population is Alaska Native and subsistence activities, including hunts for the bowhead whale, provide most foods.

Sen. Murkowski pushes for ratification of Arctic treaty  -  Jul 27, 2008
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner,Alaska’s congressional delegation introduced legislation Thursday that would authorize the US Secretary of Commerce to set the subsistence bowhead whale

Shell plans unmanned flights over oil seas  -  Aug 1, 2008
Alaskajournal.com,The National Marine Fisheries Service plans bowhead whale migration and feeding surveys called for MMS. Fish and Wildlife also plans surveys for polar bears

Perish the thought of drilling  -  Jul 27, 2008
Toledo Blade,The Arctic refuge is home to 45 species of land and marine mammals, from the pigmy shrew to the bowhead whale; 36 species of fish, and 180 species of birds,

BP unveils plans to tap off-shore reserves  -  Jul 15, 2008
KTUU,WWF also says seismic surveying, a first step in development, can create noise that interrupts feeding grounds for marine mammals like the bowhead whale.

Narwhals more at risk to Arctic warming than polar bears  -  25 Apr 2008
The Associated PressAfter the narwhal — which is also known as the "corpse whale" — and polar bear, the most at risk were the hooded seal, bowhead whale and walrus.

New estimates say Eastern Arctic bowhead whales are not endangered ...  -  Apr 14, 2008
The Canadian Press..."Now that the bowhead whale population has come back to historical numbers, there shouldn't be any stopping us," said Nirlungayuk.

Scott Hollifield: It's official -- no state-sponsored cocktail  -  Apr 10, 2008
McDowell News,The bowhead whale is actually Alaska's official marine mammal and would crush your car like aluminum can. (And, if my petition is successful, the aluminum

At Risk: bears and a way of life  -  Apr 19, 2008
The Gazette (Montreal),Three years after scientists were ready to list the bowhead whale as threatened, the department said the whales are even more bountiful than they were

The Edge of Extinction  -  Apr 7, 2008
Vanity Fair,But by the time I arrived, in mid-September, they’d been dining for days on prey already dead: the stinking remains of bowhead-whale carcasses.

IFAW seeks help for polar bears  -  Apr 21, 2008
Cape Codder,She said the melting arctic ice not only imperils polar bears but ice seals, walrus and even the bowhead whale. “There is a gap between what scientists are

A week's worth of science news  -  Mar 30, 2008
Toronto Star,One of the mysteries of this aspect of the Arctic environment revolves around the bowhead whale. Scientists believe it consumes Calanus and other copepods

From snowmachine to the stage  -  Apr 4, 2008
Tundra Drums,For the uninitiated, her Eskimo salad is a tossed medley of beluga, bowhead whale muktuk, seal, smoked salmon, aged blubber and bits of apple, radish,

Minnesotans fight for polar bears' rights  -  Mar 27, 2008
Minnesota Daily,The Bowhead Whale and the walrus habitats are also threatened by drilling in the area. Jane Chen, fisheries and wildlife sophomore, has been advocating the

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