Whale in sentence

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It boils down to two main things: whale poop and rotting carcasses.

This whale pump, as it's called, actually brings essential limiting nutrients from the depths to the surface waters where they stimulate the growth of phytoplankton, which forms the base of all marine food chains.

So over the 200 years of whaling, when we were busy killing and removing these carcasses from the oceans, we likely altered the rate and geographic distribution of these whale falls that would descend into deep oceans, and as a result, probably led to a number of extinctions of species that were most specialized and dependent on these carcasses for their survival.

I'd been scuba diving with a group of friends for about a week, and it had been glorious: manta rays, whale sharks, penguins and, of course, hammerhead sharks.

And my spirit soared free, like a great whale gliding through the sea of silent euphoria.

The elephant has the same skeleton, the killer whale has the same skeleton, as do we.

This whale had just finished eating part of a grey whale with his companions who had killed that whale.

This whale is T20.

You know what it means to feel like a square wheel, but not what it's like to be tired as a whale.

What makes the world of a sperm so fundamentally different from that of a sperm whale?

For example, because of its huge size, a sperm whale inhabits the large Reynolds number world.

Human ones weigh 1.5 kilograms, elephant brains 5 kg, and whale brains 9 kg, yet on a per weight basis, humans pack in more neurons than any other species.

This figure, Jonah, who spent three days in the belly of the whale, for the Christians, is the symbol of the renewal of humanity through Jesus' sacrifice, but for the multitudes of visitors to that museum from all faiths who visit there every day, he is the moment the distant past encounters and meets immediate reality.

Mice and rats reach the end of their lives after just four years, while for the bowhead whale, Earth's longest-lived mammal, death can come after 200.

For instance, an elephant or whale will live much longer than a mouse, rat, or vole, which in turn have years on flies and worms.

This group includes humans, cats, dogs, giraffes, and even the blue whale, the biggest animal on Earth.

Under a full-size replica of a whale, I sat with the titans of our time as they celebrated their peers and their good deeds.

We made balloons the size of a blue whale.

Bear (Safwat Saleem's voice): Hi. (Laughter) Safwat Saleem: I've been a whale.

If anybody's got a whale skeleton they want to sell me, I'll put it in the studio.

We don't know this for sure because it's essentially impossible to observe the internal organs of a living, singing whale, but we think that when a whale sings, muscular contractions in the throat and chest move air from the lungs across the U-fold and into the laryngeal sacs, causing the U-fold to vibrate.

In one recorded session, a humpback whale sang for 22 hours.

For example, scientists have been able to differentiate the elusive blue whale's populations worldwide based on their songs.

Boating, military sonar, underwater construction, and seismic surveys for oil are occurring more often which may interfere with whale's communication.

That doesn’t mean a young whale only interacts with her relatives.

This means that as a female killer whale ages, a greater percentage of her family consists of her children and grandchildren, while more distant relatives die off.

Last May, I spent nine days living up in Barrow, Alaska, the northernmost settlement in the United States, with a family of Inupiat Eskimos, documenting their annual spring whale hunt.

And the Eskimo community basically camps out on the edge of the ice here, waits for a whale to come close enough to attack.

And when it does, it throws a harpoon at it, and then hauls the whale up under the ice, and cuts it up.

So I went up there, and I lived with these guys out in their whaling camp here, and photographed the entire experience, beginning with the taxi ride to Newark airport in New York, and ending with the butchering of the second whale, seven and a half days later.

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