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BowheadEducational resources on BowheadBowhead [an error occurred while processing this directive] IUCN Profile of the Bowhead Bowhead Whales May Be the World's Oldest Mammals, Alaska Science Forum Ivory-tipped harpoon points were recently recovered from the blubber of bowhead whales killed by Eskimo hunters. These points have been out of use for at least 100 years. www.gi.alaska.edu/ScienceForum/ASF15/1529.html ADW: Balaena mysticetus: Information Bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) once inhabited oceans throughout the northern hemisphere. Over the last hundred years the population of bowhead whales has been greatly reduced animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Balaena_mysticetus.html Bowhead Biology and Management The following discussion and associated images of the scientific study of bowhead whales are derived from presentations given by J. Craig George of the North www.uark.edu/misc/jcdixon/Historic_Whaling/Whale_biology/bowhead_behavior&bio.htm Bowhead Whale Acoustic Census — Bioacoustics ... George, J. C. , J. Zeh, R. Suydam, and C. Clark. 2004. Abundance and population trend (1978-2001) of the western Arctic bowhead whales surveyed near Barrow, Alaska. www.birds.cornell.edu/brp/publications/bowhead-whale-acoustic-census bowhead whale Common Name: Bowhead Whale. Class: Mammalia. Order: Cetacea. Family: Balaenidae. Genus: Balaena. Species: Bowhead whale Balaena mysticetus www3.canisius.edu/~noonan/cac/marine_mammals/bowhead_whale.htm Bowhead Whale — Bioacoustics Research Program During their migration past Barrow, Alaska each spring, bowhead whales, Balaena mysticetus, are remarkably vocal, producing. patterned sequences of complex sounds referred to as www.birds.cornell.edu/brp/listen-to-project-sounds/bowhead-whale Listening for Bowhead Whales | Ice Stories: Dispatches From Polar ... ABOARD THE USCGC HEALY, ON THE BEAUFORT SEA-- Now that we are aboard the HEALY and settled in, while we slept a survey was done running roughly offshore of Barrow. The principal icestories.exploratorium.edu/dispatches/listening-for-bowhead-whales ASK Archive 2001: Bowhead Whales Hello Siri and Adrienne, I have answered your questions below about bowhead whales to the best of my knowledge. I have also inserted links that you can go to to find out whale.wheelock.edu/archives/ask02/0141.html AEWC Overview ...promote extensive scientific research on the bowhead whale so as to ensure the continued health of the bowhead stock -communicate to the outside world the www.uark.edu/misc/jcdixon/Historic_Whaling/AEWC/AEWC.htm ESKIMO Case However, the bowhead can be found not only in the Bering Sea, but also in the Arctic waters of Canada and Greenland, and the Barents Sea. Bowhead whales were believed to be www.american.edu/TED/eskimo.htm
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