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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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The company has agreed to take a mid-season break in its drilling program, scheduled to begin in July 2010, to accommodate the fall hunting season on bowhead whales undertaken by Native Alaskan villagers, who had feared that noisy drilling activities could injure or scare off the whales.
United States : Arctic offshore drilling plan cleared for Beaufort Sea by TendersInfo
Greenland has a quota to hunt 200 mink whales, 19 fin whales and 2 bowhead whales every year.
Whaling body skirts divisive Greenland request by Shrikesh Laxmidas / Reuters Environmental Online Report
The Bowhead Whale has made it to both the Alaska endangered species list and the Federal endangered species list.
Endangered Animals of Alaska by John Parks / News, opinion and commentary community
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