Translation for 'bowhead whale' from English to Bulgarian

bowhead whale {noun} [Balaena mysticetus]

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whale {noun}

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whale shark {noun} [Rhincodon typus]

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humpback (whale) {noun} [Megaptera novaeangliae]

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killer whale {noun} [Orcinus orca]

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Greenland (right) whale {noun} [Balaena mysticetus]

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grey whale {noun} [Br.] [Eschrichtius robustus]

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pygmy sperm whale {noun} [Kogia breviceps]

малък кашалот {м}зоол.T

gray whale {noun} [Am.] [Eschrichtius robustus]

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whale-headed stork {noun} [Balaeniceps rex]

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gray back whale {noun} [Am.] [Eschrichtius robustus]

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Pacific gray whale {noun} [Am.] [Eschrichtius robustus]

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California gray whale {noun} [Am.] [Eschrichtius robustus]

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ginkgo-toothed beaked whale {noun} [Mesoplodon ginkgodens]

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• The largest summer visitor to Baffin Island is the bowhead whale.
• This area is also an important summering area for the bowhead whale, beluga whale and narwhal.
• He also obtained the skeletons from a bowhead whale ("Balaena mysticetus") and a young blue whale ("Balaenoptera musculus"), which are still on display in the museum.
• Arviat ("place of the bowhead whale") is derived from the Inuktitut word "arviq" meaning "Bowhead whale".
• The waters off Point Barrow are on the bowhead whale migration route and it is surmised, that the site was chosen to make hunting easier.

• Subsistence hunting of the bowhead whale is carried out by nine different indigenous Alaskan communities, and is managed by the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission which reports to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
• They were hoping to obtain a bowhead whale specimen for the American Museum of Natural History.
• With the local bowhead whale population soon decimated and whaling developed into a pelagic industry, Smeerenburg was abandoned around 1660.
• Occasionally there are sightings of bowhead whale. The Russian Arctic stock of this species, ranging from Cape Farewell in Greenland and Svalbard/Spitsbergen areas to East Siberian Sea is considered to be the most endangered of all bowhead populations in the world.
• The bowhead whale used to be a major plankton predator, but it almost disappeared from the Norwegian Sea after intense whaling in the 19th century, and was temporarily extinct in the entire North Atlantic.

• Among mammals, species maximum lifespan varies significantly (for example the shrew has a lifespan of two years, whereas the oldest bowhead whale is recorded to be 211 years).
• The bowhead whale found in the Arctic is also a balaenid whale, but sufficiently different to warrant its own genus "Balaena".
• is a family of whales of the parvorder Mysticeti that contains two living genera: the right whales (genus "Eubalaena"), and in a separate genus, the closely related bowhead whale (genus "Balaena").
• The Classic Thule tradition relied heavily on the bowhead whale for survival because bowhead whales swim slowly and sleep near the water's surface.
• Whales have an elongated head, especially baleen whales, due to the wide overhanging jaw. Bowhead whale plates can be [...] long.