![]() Guns N' Roses surprise fans as they bring out Dave Grohl for last song during epic headline performance at Glastonbury Pink wows in a pink swimsuit as she takes an ice bath backstage ahead of her headline performance at British Summertime Festival amid sizzling heatwaveīeyonce almost suffers a WARDROBE MALFUNCTION before her backup dancer comes to her rescue during a show in Germany Using bowhead eyeballs, each the size of a snooker ball, they say they can tell the whale's age by the amount of acid, which increases in quantity with the years. To all residents of the hunters' villages.īiologists can estimate the age of bowhead whalesīy studying the changes in levels of aspartic acid, an amino acid found in the eye lens and teeth. In Alaska, meat from hunted whales is distributed While commercial whaling is now banned by international agreement, natives from Alaska, the Chukotka region of eastern Russia and Greenland are permitted to hunt a fixed number of whales for traditional, non-commercial consumption. ![]() Their only foes are man and orca whales.Īlaskan whalers found the harpoon fragment as they carved the 50-foot long whale up with a chainsaw after using a powerful 21st century gun to kill it. They travel in small pods and calves weigh as much as six tons at birth. Scientists believe that the bowheads' longevity is the result of the tough environment where they live in the freezing arctic, where there are not abundant plankton and krill crustaceans to eat.Ĭonsequently, the whales have a slower metabolismīowheads are an endangered species and there are currently about 8,000 to 12,000 left. The only other mammal that comes close is elephants, which can live to 70 in captivity. ![]()
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