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Some facts about the
Bowhead
Adult weight : 100000 kg (220000 lbs)
Maximum longevity : 211 years
Female maturity :8212 days
Male maturity : 8212 days
Gestation : 396 days
Weaning : 365 days
Litter size : 1
Weight at birth : 900 kg (1980 lbs)
Bowhead
Order : Cetacea
Suborder : Mysticeti
Family : Balaenidae
Species : Balaena mysticetus
The Bowhead Whale (Balaena mysticetus) is also named the Arctic Whale or Greenland Right Whale. Unlike other whales, the bowhead spends all its life in the Arctic waters. In history they were an ideal target for whale hunters, they are slow swimming and float after death. Their predators are orcas and humans. Depending on the location of the whales, they are classified as 'critically endangered' (Spitsbergen) to 'Lower risk - conservation dependent' (Bering-Chukchi-Beaufort). Some facts:
- With their gigantic bony skulls they can break through 60 centimeter thick ice to breathe.
- The layer of blubber fat on their body can be as thick as 50 centimeters.
- Bowhead whales can stay as long as 40 minutes.
- Bowhead whales do not have dorsal fins and have the longest baleen plates of more then three meters.
The Bowhead whale, bowhead, greenland right whale is listed as Conservation Dependent (LR/cd), the focus of a continuing taxon-specific or habitat-specific conservation programme targeted towards the taxon in question, the cessation of which would result in the taxon qualifying for one of the threatened categories below within a period of five years, on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
Facts about the bowhead
Bowheads are a distinct group.
Although Bowheads are capable of breaking through ice up to twenty centimetres thick with their strong skulls, some bowheads die from suffocation when they get caught under extra-thick blocks of ice.
Bowheads are social animals, and communicate through long-distance vocalizations, some carrying 5-10 km.
But as Doug Schneider reports in this week's Arctic Science Journeys Radio, some bowheads are looking elsewhere for food.
One interesting fact about the bowhead is that they are one of the largest baleen whales. (Full text)
Bowhead is a wholly owned subsidiary of Ukpeagvik Iqupiat Corporation, the native village corporation of Barrow, Alaska. (Full text)
html Edge of the Arctic Shelf: The bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) is a baleen whale, feeding on krill and small http://motted. (Full text)
The Greenland whale, Balaena mysticetus, is occasionally reported in the area. (Full text)
As bowheads are baleen whales, they filter their food through their long baleen plates. (Full text)
The bowhead is so named because its huge jaw is curved like an archer’s bow. (Full text)
BOWHEAD WHALE: The bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) is an arctic baleen, a right whale with a large, bow-shaped head that is up to 40% of its body length. (Full text)
Bowheads are well adapted for living in arctic and subarctic waters—they have very thick blubber, up to 1½ feet (. (Full text)
Whales in Alaska Humpbacks, killers (orcas), belugas and bowheads are seen most often (Full text)
The bowhead is one of the most seriously endangered of all the large whales, and is listed as such by CITES. (Full text)
Weight--100 tons Lifespan-- Sexual Maturity-- Pregnancy--1 year The Bowhead is almost totally black, with a white chin and some gray on (Full text)
The bowhead is so named because its huge jaw is curved like an archer’s bow. (Full text)
The Bowhead whale, Balaena mysticetus; it's historic and current status - evaluation of endangered Bowhead whale stocks The bowhead whale, Balaena mysticetus, is currently listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 and as depleted under the Marine Mammal . (Full text)
The bowhead whale, Balaena mysticetus, is currently listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 and as depleted under the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972. (Full text)
Meanwhile, the Bowheads are Mia, Elazya, Julie, Dolly, and. (Full text)
Bowheads are excellent navigators of ice-choked waters, although they sometimes get trapped by ice and drown. (Full text)
Now the bowhead is hunted only by Alaskan Eskimos from nine villages extending from St. (Full text)
Bowhead Whale The bowhead whale, or Balaena mysticetus, is an endangered species. (Full text)
Distribution of the Bowhead is circumpolar confined to the Arctic, associated with ice. (Full text)
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