Sentence examples for blubber of the from inspiring English sources

Scientists have also recently discovered that the blubber of the region's orcas is loaded with toxins, earning them the distinction of being the most contaminated whales in the world.

Mature bears tend to eat only the calorie-rich skin and blubber of the seal, which are highly digestible, whereas younger bears consume the protein-rich red meat.

The meat and blubber of the dolphins caught has been found to have high levels of mercury, cadmium, the pesticide DDT, and organic contaminants like PCBs.

Hypodermal adipose tissue (blubber) of the seal's creates a continuous layer, the panniculus adiposus.

These contaminants were also measured in the blubber of the harbor porpoises included in this study (Jepson 2003).

They reported PCB levels in the blubber of the females whose calves did not survive 12 days postpartum compared with levels in females whose calves survived beyond 6 months.

But without our skeletons holding them up, what's unique about us would consist of indistinguishable heaps of blubber on the floor.

We emphasize the need for more data collection on the relationship between maternal blubber PCB levels and calf survivorship, the annual accumulation of PCBs in the blubber of females, and the transfer of PCBs to the calf through the placenta and during lactation.

We then correlated the body burden of DDT and DDE of the zebrafish to levels measured in the blubber of fetal sea lions in the early 1970s and 2000s to evaluate the feasibility of an interaction with domoic acid that may cause a fetal origin for juvenile and adult disease.

He says a metal slug was found in the blubber of one animal, but neither the fragments nor the slug appear to be fatal and may have been from old wounds.

One study found that many metals are low in concentration in the blubber of narwhals, and high in the liver and the kidney.