Sentence examples for fat blubber from inspiring English sources

Pinnipeds are also hunted by humans for their skin, meat, and fat (blubber).

Seals possess a thick layer of fat (blubber) below the skin, which provides insulation, acts as a food reserve, and contributes to buoyancy.

Fifty known-age, adult seals (9 27 years, 24 males, 26 females) in McMurdo Sound were sampled for mass, total body fat, blubber depth and a suite of blood parameters (21 variables) to assess hydration state, nutritional plane, reproductive hormones (females only), organ function and immune status.

Intradermal fat (blubber) was closed in a continuous mattress pattern to appose thick blubber layers.

A polar bear's diet is rich in seal blubber and half of its own body weight is composed of fat.

In whales, a layer of the skin (dermis) has evolved into a blanket of blubber, which is extremely rich in fats and oils and therefore conducts heat poorly.

"Pregnant animals are fatter," Dr. Noren said, "but the blubber has a higher proportion of lipid" — which makes the dolphins more buoyant and less able to dive for prey.

In the late 1960s Danish physician Hans Olaf Bang became fixated on an epidemiological anomaly: Why did Greenland's Inuit rarely get heart disease in spite of a high-fat diet consisting mostly of whale blubber and seal meat?

Just because we don't see it, doesn't mean it isn't happening.' So says Wendy Shanker, a fat-rights activist and the woman who has spearheaded a blubber backlash across America and beyond.

The team also wants to cross-reference footage of fatter and skinnier whales with their feces, to see if blubber has an impact on stress levels.

The analysis indicates that polar bears evolved from brown bears about 500,000 years ago and quickly became specialists in eating a high-fat diet, who was essential for surviving almost solely on seal blubber.