Sentence examples for whale brains from inspiring English sources

Whale brains are indeed giant.

There are recipes for treats like pan-fried sperm whale brains, tips on scrimshaw and a captain's surly departure speech.

The method was developed because traditional ways of fixing brains are poorly suited to the collection of whale brains.

The discovery that these cells are not unique to primates came about when neuroscientist Patrick Hof of Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, the leader of the group that made the 1999 discovery, teamed up with Mount Sinai neuroscientist Estel Van der Gucht to study the detailed anatomy of whale brains.

The whale brains are by far the biggest, weighing as much as 15 pounds.

At roughly 18 pounds to our 3, the sperm whale brain is the largest of any animal on earth.

We report the mean fixed weight of the minke whale brain as 2741 g, which is the lowest among the baleen whales.

He then decides to alter the controlling device programming to render the Star Whale brain-dead, allowing it to continue through space but no longer feel the pain.

Subsequent necropsies on gray-whale brains revealed that they contain tiny particles of magnetic iron oxide, inner navigational ball bearings of a sort that whir in concert with the earth's magnetic fields, guiding the whales toward their Arctic feeding grounds and, in the early winter, back down to Baja's birthing lagoons.

In addition to bleeding around the whales' brains and ears, scientists found lesions in their livers, lungs and kidneys, as well as nitrogen bubbles in their organs and tissue, all classic symptoms of a sickness that scientists had naturally assumed whales would be immune to: the bends.

TO DATE, NO neurological studies of the gray-whale brain have been done.