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Hear how research unfolds at sea. Playing female whale calls into the water, researcher Susan Parks suddenly finds herself the center of attention of a group of male North Atlantic Right Whales. Will she be able to gather crucial data before a breaching whale crashes down on her boat?
Download a transcript of this podcast Image Credit: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
read moreDuration: 5:45Published: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 15:27:58 +0000
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Balaena mysticetus, Linne. Bowhead Whale.. Length, 60 feet. (After Scammon)
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Writer Karen Romano Young takes an icebreaker to Barrow, Alaska, to join in the festival of Naluqatak and learn about the intimate relationship between the Inupiat Eskimos and the bowhead whale. Listen as she tells Ari Daniel Shapiro how the whole community turns out for whale hunt, how the bowhead nourishes the Inupiat, both physically and spiritually—and how the hunt is proving to be an unexpected gift to scientists.
read moreDuration: 5:14Published: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 17:36:55 +0000
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Bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus), caught in an Inuit subsistence whale hunt in Igloolik, Nunavut, in 2002From
Wikimedia Commons
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Head of Bowhead Whale, Showing Scalp, or upper jaw, and whale-bone hanging from it. It is just being hoisted aboard.
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Bowhead or Arctic Whale. (Balaena mysticetus)
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Bowhead or Arctic Whale. Balaena mysticetus, L.
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Bowhead Whale (Balaena mysticetus) viewed from a small boat (Qeqertarsauq, West Greenland, May 2002)From
American Cetacean Society website
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Observer: Kadis R; Adel KadisDate of record: 2011-08-28Province: Western CapeSpecies name: Eubalaena australisCommon name: Southern Right Whale -- Southern Right WhaleFamily: BalaenidaeRecord status: ACCEPTED.
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Observer: Kennedy DavidDate of record: 2011-09-28Province: Western CapeSpecies name: Eubalaena australisCommon name: Southern Right Whale -- Southern Right WhaleFamily: BalaenidaeRecord status: ACCEPTED.
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Observer: Steen LDate of record: 2011-11-03Province: Western CapeSpecies name: Eubalaena australisCommon name: Southern Right Whale -- Southern Right WhaleFamily: BalaenidaeRecord status: ACCEPTED.
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Observer: Steen LDate of record: 2011-11-03Province: Western CapeSpecies name: Eubalaena australisCommon name: Southern Right Whale -- Southern Right WhaleFamily: BalaenidaeRecord status: ACCEPTED.
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Observer: Steen LDate of record: 2011-11-03Province: Western CapeSpecies name: Eubalaena australisCommon name: Southern Right Whale -- Southern Right WhaleFamily: BalaenidaeRecord status: ACCEPTED.
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Observer: Steen LDate of record: 2011-11-07Province: Western CapeSpecies name: Eubalaena australisCommon name: Southern Right Whale -- Southern Right WhaleFamily: BalaenidaeRecord status: ACCEPTED.
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Observer: Steen LDate of record: 2011-11-07Province: Western CapeSpecies name: Eubalaena australisCommon name: Southern Right Whale -- Southern Right WhaleFamily: BalaenidaeRecord status: ACCEPTED.
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Observer: Steen LDate of record: 2011-11-07Province: Western CapeSpecies name: Eubalaena australisCommon name: Southern Right Whale -- Southern Right WhaleFamily: BalaenidaeRecord status: ACCEPTED.
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Observer: Hardaker T. &Date of record: 2010-11-07Province: Western CapeSpecies name: Eubalaena australisCommon name: Southern Right Whale -- Southern Right WhaleFamily: BalaenidaeRecord status: ACCEPTED.
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Observer: Hardaker T. &Date of record: 2008-09-06Province: Western CapeSpecies name: Eubalaena australisCommon name: Southern Right Whale -- Southern Right WhaleFamily: BalaenidaeRecord status: ACCEPTED.
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Observer: Hardaker T. &Date of record: 2007-09-02Province: Western CapeSpecies name: Eubalaena australisCommon name: Southern Right Whale -- Southern Right WhaleFamily: BalaenidaeRecord status: ACCEPTED.
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Observer: Crane GDate of record: 2008-10-31Province: Western CapeSpecies name: Eubalaena australisCommon name: Southern Right Whale -- Southern Right WhaleFamily: BalaenidaeRecord status: ACCEPTED.
