Sentence examples for the bowhead from inspiring English sources
noun
A large whale, , having a large, rounded head, that inhabits Arctic waters.
The bowhead whale — Balaena mysticetus — is a member of the right whale family.
They worried that icebreakers and drill ships would hurt the bowhead whales on which they depend.
The bowhead whale is at the center of the culture for Inupiat Eskimos.
In 1820, Scoresby Jr published his account of the whales of the Arctic: the bowhead, the beluga and the narwhal.
It sounds almost exactly like the song of the bowhead whale, a rarely encountered denizen of arctic seas.
"The bowhead whale and the materials it provides is the meat of my life," said Vernon Rexford, an Eskimo carver.
People worry intensely that offshore drilling would hurt the bowhead population — and that a spill could destroy it.
As sea ice melts, the bowhead whale and the narwhal will lose protective cover, while other species such as the ringed seal will struggle to breed.
"The bowhead whale is an icon of cultural identity for the Inupiat people," said Rachel James, a campaigner at Pacific Environment, one of the groups suing the government.
It's true that the U.S. government lists the bowhead whale as endangered, but the population appears to have recovered to a still modest 10,000.
For the Inupiat villagers who have made their homes on this finger of land in the Chukchi Sea for generations, nothing is more important than the bowhead whale.
