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bowhead whale

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Noun1.bowhead whalebowhead whale - large-mouthed Arctic whale          
Balaena mysticetus, bowhead, Greenland whale
baleen whale, whalebone whale - whale with plates of whalebone along the upper jaw for filtering plankton from the water
Balaena, genus Balaena - type genus of the Balaenidae: Greenland whales


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While owning a $13 billion contracting corporation, the Inupiat continue their millennia-old traditional practices of hunting Bowhead whales.
Polar fleeced: Sen. Ted Stevens built a welfare state for Eskimos ... by Wallace-Wells, Benjamin / Washington Monthly
One site near a freshwater pond on Canada's Somerset Island includes 11 huts that had been constructed from whale bones and is surrounded by the remains of 125 bowhead whales and several hundred seals, says Smol.
Ancient whalers altered arctic lakes by Science News
When it couldn't muster the requisite three-quarter majority, Japan blocked consensus that customarily provides a quota of bowhead whales that are hunted strictly for subsistence purposes by native peoples in the Alaskan and Russian Arctic.
The whale killers: Japan fights international opinion to continue ... by Russell, Dick / E
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