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bowhead whale |
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bowhead whale: see right whale right whale, name for whales of the family Balaenidae. They were so named by whalers, who for centuries considered them "the right whales" to hunt, because they float when killed and because they yield enormous quantities of oil and of baleen. ..... Click the link for more information. . How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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While owning a $13 billion contracting corporation, the Inupiat continue their millennia-old traditional practices of hunting Bowhead whales. One site near a freshwater pond on Canada's Somerset Island includes 11 huts that had been constructed from whale bones and is surrounded by the remains of 125 bowhead whales and several hundred seals, says Smol. When it couldn't muster the requisite three-quarter majority, Japan blocked consensus that customarily provides a quota of bowhead whales that are hunted strictly for subsistence purposes by native peoples in the Alaskan and Russian Arctic. |
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