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The bowhead whale is an arctic species with a circumpolar distribution. The species favours the ice edge around the Arctic Ocean and the waters surrounding Greenland and Svalbard across to Novaya Zemlya, migrating northwards in summer into the high Arctic as the ice retreats. In recent
21 Φεβ 2018 · The bowhead whale transcriptome is a valuable resource for the study of this remarkable animal, including the evolution of longevity and its important correlates such as resistance to cancer...
Bowhead whales and whale watching. Generally, as a 'shy species' located in remote regions of the Arctic and subarctic, bowhead whales are not often billed as the target of whale watching operations. They can be viewed during day-trips from a few locations in Canada (e.g. Baffin Island).
The huge, slow-moving bowhead is an Arctic whale found primarily near and often amongst sea ice. The bowhead whale famously has the longest lifespan of any wild mammal species – incredibly, some have been known to live over 200 years.
Photo courtesy of Vicki Beaver, NOAAAFSC. (US NMFS Permit No. 14245). Bowhead whale dive and blow. Threats: bycatch, ship strikes, climate change, pollutants, coastal develop-ment, habitat degradation. Habitat: Arctic and sub-Arctic waters Diet: Zooplankton (copepods and krill)
The Bowhead Whale, Balaena mysticetus ~~ HOWARD W. BRAHAM Introduction The bowhead whale, Ba/aena mys ticetus (Linnaeus 1758), also called the Greenland right whale, is the only baleen whale which spends its life in and around Arctic waters. It is also one of the rarest of all cetaceans. Heavily exploited for its whalebone (baleen) and oil ...
BOWHEAD WHALE (Balaena mysticetus): Western Arctic Stock STOCK DEFINITION AND GEOGRAPHIC RANGE Western Arctic bowhead whales are distributed in seasonally ice-covered waters of the Arctic and near-Arctic, generally north of 60 N and south of 75 N in the western Arctic Basin (Braham 1984, Moore and Reeves 1993).
