10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BOWHEAD»
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bowhead in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
bowhead and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
Contains an introduction to bowhead whales, in simple text with illustrations, describing their physical characteristics, behavior, habitat, food, and life cycle.
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Gift of the Whale: The Inupiat
Bowhead Hunt, a Sacred Tradition
Eventually, he got permission to accompany them on their historic whale hunt. This book is his record, in sensitive text and almost 200 stark images, of what he experienced.
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Behavior, disturbance responses and distribution of
bowhead ...
The general objectives of the 5-year study were to document the behaviour of bowhead whales in the Canadian Beaufort Sea and to determine whether exposure to various types of industrial activities affects this behaviour.
William John Richardson, LGL Ecological Research Associates, United States. Minerals Management Service, 1985
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Acoustic effects of oil production activities on
bowhead and ...
Describes results from 1990, the second year of a continuing study of the effects of noise from oil production activities on bowhead and (secondarily) white whales during their spring migrations around Alaska.
William John Richardson, L.G.L. Limited, Environmental Research Associates, United States. Minerals Management Service. Procurement Operations, 1991
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Recovering rights:
bowhead whales and Inuvialuit subsistence ...
Report providing a historical and socio-cultural perspective on hunting by Inuvialuit on bowhead (also known as right) whales in the Beaufort Sea.
Milton M. R. Freeman, Eleanor Elizabeth Wein, Darren Edward Keith, 1992
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Bowhead Whale Behavior in Relation to Seismic Exploration, ...
The behaviour of bowhead whales in the eastern part of the Alaskan Beaufort Sea or near the Alaska/Yukon border were observed from an aircraft from Sept. 12 to Oct. 15, 1981.
Bowhead. Whale. Bowheads are black whales. They usually have a patch of
white on their bottom jaws. Bowheads have baleen as long as 1 3 feet (4 m). That
is more than twice as tall as some full-grown adult men. Bowheads are slow ...
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Nunavut: Inuit Regain Control of Their Lands and Their Lives
BOWHEAD WHALE HUNTING IN NUNAVUT: ASYMBOLOF SELF-
GOVERNMENT by Helle H0gh A new political culture is developing in Nunavut
where tradition, culture, and identity are negotiated, and where new ways of
reconstructing old ...
Jens Dahl, Jack Hicks, Peter Jull, 2000
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Endangered Wildlife and Plants of the World
The bowhead whale's unusual appearance is further enhanced by its eyes,
which, by their position near the end of the mouth, appear to be set near the
halfway point of the body horizontally and below the midpoint vertically. The front
of the ...
Marshall Cavendish Corporation, 2001
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Health Assessment in the
Bowhead Whale
Tissue samples and morphometric data were collected from 64 bowhead whales landed during the 1998-2002 subsistence hunts in Barrow and Kaktovik, Alaska.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BOWHEAD»
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bowhead is used in the context of the following news items.
Sakari Momoi, world's oldest man, dead at 112
World's oldest person Misao Okawa dies in Japan at 117 · Bowhead whale genome may offer clues to aging gracefully. Named the world's ... «CBC.ca, Jul 15»
In the Race to Control the Arctic, the US Lags Behind
The bowhead whales had migrated past Barrow recently, on their way to their summer feeding grounds off Canada. 07_03_Arctic_05 Glaciers ... «Newsweek, Jul 15»
July Book Buzz: "Mighty Whale Tales"
Her adult children Craig and Twig finished the novel about Siku, a bowhead whale who lives in the Bering Strait bordering Alaska and Russia. «The Missourian, Jul 15»
Youth leaders bring strong voices to D.C.
Over the past year, youth were selected to go on caribou hunts, harvest bowhead whale, make atikluks and were given the opportunity to ... «The Arctic Sounder, Jul 15»
Coastal Alaska natives face 'some of the highest shoreline erosion …
They already knew climate change was changing their lives for the worse. The ice the Iñupiat people used for centuries to hunt bowhead ... «Washington Post, Jul 15»
Thriving in a Barren Land
St. Jude's Anglican Cathedral took the shape of an igloo. At the new cemetery nearby, the lower jawbones of a bowhead whale formed an arch ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
Going to Gambell
I am grateful to those who made me feel welcome, who took me on a four-wheeler ride around the beaches to see bowhead whale remnants ... «Knom, Jul 15»
Study: Polar bears could feel sting of climate change by 2025
Polar bears feed from the carcass of a bowhead whale left on the beach in Kaktovik. September 7, 2012 Loren Holmes photo. About a third of ... «Alaska Dispatch News, Jul 15»
Whaling Group Calls EPA Permit Into Question
The Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission - which represents Alaska Native villages that engage in subsistence hunting of bowhead whales ... «Courthouse News Service, Jun 15»
Alaska Native knowledge merges with modern research to help …
Bowhead whale hunting happens in the spring when whales are migrating north. Inupiat whale hunters start building trails on the ice to the ... «Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Jun 15»
