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Definition of Bowheads

Bowhead
Bowhead Bow"head`, n. (Zo["o]l.) The great Arctic or Greenland whale. (Bal[ae]na mysticetus). See Baleen, and Whale.

Meaning of Bowheads from wikipedia

- researchers studying belugas noticed concentrations of bowheads in the study area. Thus, bowheads in the Sea of Okhotsk were once called "forgotten whales"...
- single species, Balaena mysticetus. Eventually, it was recognized that bowheads and right whales were in fact different. Later, morphological factors such...
- summer range of bowhead whales into the Beaufort Sea and further east into the Canadian Archipelago. Like other whale species, bowheads tend to avoid ice-choked...
- The IWC quota for hunting bowheads was 100 in 2020, with 7 for Russia and 93 for the United States. US hunters stuck 69 bowheads, of which they were able...
- frequented by American whaleships cruising for bowhead whales between 1849 and 1885. They called it Bowhead Island. Whaleboats spent the night camping on...
- area for the bowhead whale, beluga whale and narwhal. Both bowhead whales and belugas winter in the waters of northeastern Hudson Bay. Bowheads were the only...
- the Middle Ages, early whaling fleets aimed at baleen whales, such as bowheads. In the 16th and 17th centuries, the Dutch fleet had about 300 whaling...
- Annual catches vary between 300 and 500 belugas and 40 to 70 bowheads. The hunt takes the bowhead whales from a po****tion of about 10,000 in Alaskan waters...
- Whale oil is oil obtained from the blubber of whales. Oil from the bowhead whale was sometimes known as train-oil, which comes from the Dutch word traan...
- Physeteridae (sperm whales); and the Mysticeti families Balaenidae (right and bowhead whales), Eschrichtiidae (grey whales), and some of the Balaenopteridae...