Encyclopedia of the Arctic, Nide 1Routledge, 2005 - 2278 sivua "The Encyclopedia of the Arctic offers a rich and dynamic view of, and introduction to, an enormous, incredibly diverse, and rapidly changing part of the world. Its three volumes comprise overviews of hundreds of topics, events, places, people, human cultures, animals, and environments, ranging from geological history, exploration, the cultures and livelihoods of indigenous peoples, geopolitics, international environmental cooperation, natural history, physical processes, life sciences, and environmental change."--Page xxxix. |
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... whales tend to follow the seasonal movement patterns of the sea ice distribution , remaining near the expanding or retracting ice edges . Although the winter whereabouts of white whales are poorly known , it is assumed that they either ...
... whales tend to follow the seasonal movement patterns of the sea ice distribution , remaining near the expanding or retracting ice edges . Although the winter whereabouts of white whales are poorly known , it is assumed that they either ...
Sivu 264
... whale is 24 feet long , and weighs between 2.5 and 3 tons . This makes a newborn blue whale larger than almost all liv- ing adult vertebrates , except for other whales , some sharks , and such terrestrial animals as elephants and ...
... whale is 24 feet long , and weighs between 2.5 and 3 tons . This makes a newborn blue whale larger than almost all liv- ing adult vertebrates , except for other whales , some sharks , and such terrestrial animals as elephants and ...
Sivu 619
... whales in the wild can live for up to 90 years , but in the recent past , few individuals were allowed to reach that age unmolested , and ear plug analysis was commonly employed as a tool to determine how old the animal was when the ...
... whales in the wild can live for up to 90 years , but in the recent past , few individuals were allowed to reach that age unmolested , and ear plug analysis was commonly employed as a tool to determine how old the animal was when the ...
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