Sentence examples for certain whales from inspiring English sources

Flamingos have a highly specialized method of feeding, which has its closest parallel in certain whales.

She also delivered tons of baleen, the horny material from the mouths of certain whales that was made into buggy whips and corset stays.

Makaila Maier, 11, learned about the Morgan in her fifth-grade class at Castleton Elementary in Castleton-on-Hudson, N.Y., including the history of the ship and the lives of the whalers, who brought back whale oil and baleen, the horny material from the mouths of certain whales that was made into buggy whips and corset stays.

They migrate to three areas of the human brain and to date have only been found in the great apes, certain whales, elephants, bottlenose dolphins and in very small numbers in the manatee.

That was also the case for two kinds of bats and toothed whales, a group that includes dolphins and certain whales, that have converged on a specialized hunting strategy called echolocation.

The work has also revealed that the energy gained and expended by gulping may help explain why certain whales are as big as they are, and, perhaps, why they are no bigger.

In response to declining numbers of certain whale species, IWC imposed a moratorium on commercial whaling in 1986.

In the 1970s and 1980s, for example, researchers argued that reducing certain whale populations would aid stocks of krill, a ubiquitous crustacean in the Southern Ocean that is a key food source for baleen whales and other marine species.

Active sonar exercises have been implicated in mass strandings of certain whale species elsewhere.

Published: December 24, 2014 The lifespan of some animals, including quahogs, tortoises, and certain whale species, is far greater than that of humans (Austad, 2010; Finch, 1990).

What's new: Certain whaling captains may be able to claim a charitable deduction for whale hunting expenses.