Sentence examples for high blubber content from inspiring English sources
So named because whalers thought them the "right" whales to hunt, the whales were easy to approach and lived close to shore, and their high blubber content kept them afloat once killed.
Right whales were a preferred target for whalers because of their docile nature, their slow surface-skimming feeding behaviors, their tendencies to stay close to the coast, and their high blubber content (which makes them float when they are killed, and which produced high yields of whale oil).
The microscope of whole-genome studies and comparisons also gives glimpses into the adaptation of polar bears to the Arctic environment, including genes for high fat content in milk and for blubber accumulation.
By the 1990s, evidence for a correlation between high blubber levels of POPs, particularly PCBs, in marine mammals and mortality from infectious disease was accumulating.
However, by using both approaches, we would still infer that the risk of infection is more likely to be due to PCB exposure than because emaciated animals had higher blubber PCB levels.
