Comparisons of a modern porpoise sample of blubber (left and center) and the fossilized ichthyosaur blubber (right).
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You'll find seal oil -- made from blubber -- in most homes.
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They remove the blubber that will be used for oil.
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The calf was emaciated, lacking enough blubber to stay afloat.
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Moreover, fat should not be characterized simply as inert blubber.
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First discovered in 1494, Caribbean monk seals were hunted for their blubber.
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A Delft stove once fueled by blubber oil sits in the corner.
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PCBs lodge in fat and build up in the blubber of marine mammals.
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"Where's the blubber?" is not a phrase you hear often in restaurant kitchens.
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The Breitling booth features a giant aquarium filled with 650 jelly blubber jellyfish.
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Terminally ill boy dies in Santa's arms Yes, you will blubber like a baby.
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The species was nearly hunted to extinction for its blubber during the 20th century.
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The calves have only a thin layer of the blubber that protects adult whales.
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They have small eyes, up to 4 inches of blubber, and no dorsal fin.
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With that being said, adult individuals of the modern leatherback sea turtle have blubber, but they have elevated metabolic rates compared to 'typical' reptiles, and blubber is one of many adaptations in this species to enable ventures into cool and cold water [areas].
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Mothers have little to feed on and instead live off a snack pack of blubber.
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All that caloric intake forms elephant seal blubber, once valued as a source of oil.
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After the large pieces had fallen, it began to rain small particles of foul-smelling blubber.
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Harley's set to get fat injections early next month, however, it won't be her own blubber.
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Outside of Washington, killer whales are turning up with toxic levels of PCBs in their blubber.
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They impede swimming and feeding, and cause chronic infection, emaciation and damage to blubber, muscle and bone.
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Stars eat planets like tapas, and frequently binge on other stars until they're overweight with stellar blubber.
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Bisping talked trash and then threw a flurry right into Erden's gut -- and watch the blubber fly!!!
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Some of the cover sketches I sent in, like for Blubber and Deenie, came together pretty easily.
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But have you seen penguins having to tiptoe past the huge mountains of blubber that are elephant seals?
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Water then turns that color energy into heat — precisely what the blubber-less calves need to grow strong.
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Beneath all that blubber, they've revealed a massive band of purple flesh running down the whale's left side.
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They were frequently killed by hunters for their blubber following European colonization from the 1700s to the 1900s.
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They might have a foot or two of blubber, so they basically have to bleed it to death.
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The largest whales are so big and thick with blubber that overheating in warmer waters is a risk.
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She yells back to set it aside, so he lays it carefully on a slice of blubber on the beach.
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Trilobites Concentrations of the toxins are very high, lingering in the orcas' blubber, and are passed from mother to calf.
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Southern elephant seals can stay underwater for up to two hours thanks to their blubber deposits, according to National Geographic.
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Christmas commercials are here, and they'll make you blubber like a baby They also carry a message for these uncertain times.
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When you cut through the blubber layers, she adds, you start to see the muscle tense under the pressure of gas.
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They sliced into its blubber, and were shocked at what they discovered: 64 pounds of plastic throughout the stomach and intestines.
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These gentle giants found a niche in the Bering Sea, withstanding freezing temperatures thanks to generous blubber and a thick skin.
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It's now the first example of fossilized ichthyosaur blubber in the scientific literature, pointing to ichthyosaurs as warm-blooded, or endothermic, organisms.
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Ocean-dwelling creatures like whales, seals, and walruses don't freeze in the icy waters thanks to their thick layers of insulating blubber.
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Maybe if I actually spent time with one — get to know her family, swim a mile in her blubber — I'd feel differently.
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"Whalers (Boiling Blubber) Entangled in Flaw Ice, Endeavoring to Extricate Themselves" (1846) represents two spectral ships on an eerily calm Arctic sea.
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Weddell seals have a thick layer of blubber to keep them warm above and below the icy waters of Antarctica's Southern Ocean.
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The whales, once prized by hunters for their blubber, can weigh up to 40 tons and span 60 feet (18 meters) in length.
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During the age of industrial whaling, oil-fired ships with explosive harpoons cut through the blue-whale population as a knife through blubber.
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Where Botox is usually confined to injections in the jaw, PC is injected in a ring around the face to melt away blubber.
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This biopsy collection technique is common among whale researchers and is considered minimally invasive because the dart points make contact with blubber, not muscle.
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The DOC took skin and blubber samples from the pilot whales beached on Chatham Islands to study in an effort to get more answers.
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Like all animals, killer whales need to eat, Frediani told me, and it just so happens they have a taste for other whales' blubber.
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The Bod Pod is an egg-like contraption that uses air displacement plethysmography to reckon how much blubber those who clamber inside are sporting.
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As it turns out, they're not actually eels, but likely long-bodied fish known as eelpouts, which have a taste for decaying whale blubber.
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That is to say, if your suit isn't quite thick enough, slide this puppy on first, and you've bought yourself a little more blubber.
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In the early 1900s, elephant seals were hunted for their oil-rich blubber and were on the verge of extinction with about 1,000 left.
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As two visitors watch from the safety of a pickup truck a few hundred yards away, the bears devour the leftover meat and blubber.
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In modern aquatic mammals, blubber, in addition to acting as an insulating layer against the cold, aids in buoyancy and serves as a fat store.
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In the 1990s, an old stone spearhead — a weapon that hadn't been used since the 1800's — was found embedded in a bowhead whale's blubber.
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Executive sous chef Martin Lévesque is overseeing a menu that will include raw caribou, seal meat, muktuk (beluga whale), arctic char, and even narwhal blubber.
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Onlookers were covered in blubber and a car was smashed by flying pieces of whale meat, but much of the carcass did not go anywhere.
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Meat and blubber were shared among local families and sent to relatives and friends; crew pennants flew from captains' homes, inviting neighbors to come eat.
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The older men, nervous about the rising wind, hurried back toward shore, but the younger hunters remained, stripping blubber from a few small beluga whales.
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The fact that her body was likely prepped for lactation, too, means she has extra lipids in her blubber that will sustain her for a while.
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But I prefer to think about it with a comma in there: a patronizing, head-shaking rebuttal of the stubborn little piece of small-handed blubber.
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My toes remained torpid for about an hour after I got out of the river, my feet like two slabs of blubber From Hampstead to Cambridge.
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The set menu began with an appetizer of dried cod, whale blubber, and dried whale meat (which was black and tasted of seawater, blood, and iron).
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Many logs detail the gruesome, round-the-clock task of processing the whale: slicing off the blubber, boiling it to extract the oil, harvesting the bone.
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After removing a small plug of its skin and blubber, the arrow bounces off the whale and floats in the water, where it can be retrieved.
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And scientists have found that thick layers of blubber, a sign of health for Arctic mammals, have thinned on harp seals and minke whales in recent years.
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Small-scale whaling on Long Island dates to the 1640s; the blubber of the right whale was used for lamp oil and to make soap and margarine.
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The discovery of a new ichthyosaur fossil suggests this Jurassic-era creature was even more dolphin-like than we appreciated, featuring warm-blood, blubber, and even similar camouflage.
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Image: Johan Lindgren and Martin Jarenmark"We also showed that the inside of its skin was lined with blubber, to suggest that ichthyosaurs were warm-blooded," said Lindgren.
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Over a few days in April, in precise cursive with little flourishes on the capital letters, Adaline describes the crew butchering whales and boiling the blubber into oil.
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Hunted to the point of extinction for their oil-rich blubber, the seals have made a comeback since the early 20th century and now number an estimated 150,000 worldwide.
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PCBs remain the highest chemical contaminant in the whales' blubber, and are known to disrupt the whales' reproductive, endocrine, thyroid and immune systems, harm their brains and trigger cancer.
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"The blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds," a television reporter, Paul Linnman of KATU, said in a report on the explosion that has since been posted on YouTube.
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They drift into soil, water and air and slip into the bodies of animals, collecting in everything from the eggs of peregrine falcons to the blubber of beluga whales.
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Polychlorinated biphenyls, a variety of biochemicals known as PCBs, have been found to linger in the blubber of killer whales, and mothers can pass those toxins onto their offspring.
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Probably his natural, unaltered rapping cadence would sound low and blubber-tongued anyway, and probably all that cough syrup has something to do with the rasp in his throat, too.
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The "big-winged" whales are a popular kind for whale watchers, as they are often very active, especially in the summer months as they store up blubber for the winter.
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"We've got the first-ever sample of Type D killer whale," Mr. Pitman proclaimed a few minutes later, displaying to a videographer a small sample of whale skin and blubber.
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The few times I've had to sleep in the winter during a blackout, I thought I was gonna have to hunt down a seal and use its blubber for lamp oil.
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Related: Hellboy, Spider-Woman, Blubber, The Spire: This Week in Comics #2 This Week in Comics #1: Batman, Captain Marvel, Copra, Immolation The Real-Life Supergirl Behind the New 'Supergirl' Comics
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The elephant seal is a success story; they were hunted nearly to extinction in the late 1800s for that valuable blubber; by 1892, only 50 to 100 of them were left.
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Until then, watch the new trailer above and get ready to call your parents and blubber to them about how you're sorry for being a delinquent 16-year-old or whatever.
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So, Patterson drove home with all of the windows down and his shirt over his mouth and nose in an attempt to block the stench of rotting whale blubber filling the car.
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The conversation was conducted entirely in fluent English, and the atmosphere was so convivial that when Ziska's gannet-and-whale-blubber sandwich was brought out its unusual contents were barely remarked on.
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These nerves have a double-waviness that lets them expand, said the same UBC scientists who observed the capability two years ago in the Ventral Groove Blubber (VGB) nerves of fin whales.
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Unlike other marine mammals like whales or seals, beavers and otters don't have massive blubber reserves to keep them warm, so it's crucial for their fur to be as thermally efficient as possible.
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Residents of the remote islands kill hundreds of pilot whales during the warmer months of each year, in order to use the animals' blubber and meat to make it through the harsh winter.
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The viewer is confronted with scenes of slaves in chains, packed together below deck; a polar bear shot to death; a whale sliced open for blubber, bleeding; icecaps melting; seaborne atom-bomb tests.
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Eric Guiler, a biologist known for his scholarship on thylacine history, was once asked to investigate a "monster" on Tasmania's west coast, only to find a large piece of washed-up whale blubber.
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Then again, it had to be the genuine George because the genuine George's ego would not have allowed anybody else, certainly not an actor, to accept the World Series trophy, much less blubber.
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Researchers found levels of PCB as high as 1,300 milligrams per kilo in the blubber of some orca, studies show that just 50 milligrams per kilo can cause infertility and immune system problems.
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All of which makes it more than a little sad to see them in a zoo, where they too often live in small enclosures, swim in lukewarm pools, and dine on anything but blubber.
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This insulating blubber accounts for around 40 percent of a beluga's body weight, said Richard, so it can be quite prominent along the sides of the swimming whales as they move around, she said.
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"If you ever want a laugh, step into a police precinct and watch one of these boys who has been deprived of his gun blubber: 'Sure, I'll talk — it wasn't me — it was him.'"
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That&aposs when the Lewis and Clark expedition traded with a local tribe for blubber in 1806 when what is believed to be a blue whale washed ashore near modern-day Cannon Beach, Oregon.
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Slowly we learn that the purpose of the voyage is not to bring back seal skins or blubber from whales but, with another ship close by, to commit a dangerous act of insurance fraud.
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But a new study based on modeling shows that they're lingering in the blubber of killer whales — and they may end up wiping out half the world's population of killer whales in coming decades.
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Slightly more than 60 percent of the females had high progesterone levels in their blubber, indicating that they were pregnant, according to the new study, published today in the journal Royal Society Open Science.
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Traditional recipes include blubber with vinegar-miso sauce, thinly sliced whale tongue, whale steak, a hotpot where slices of whale meat are simmered with mizuna greens and, the simplest, raw whale dipped in soy sauce.
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In 2013, Miami-based performance artist Orestes de la Paz made 20 bars of soap from about three litres of his liposuctioned blubber, although about 75% of the soap was bulked up with other oils and ingredients.
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After plucking the arrow from the waves, Gavrilchuck carefully withdrew a two-centimetre long, black-and-beige piece of skin and blubber and placed it in a vial inside a red thermos, where it would stay chilled.
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The preservation of the new fossil is so good, said lead researcher Johan Lindgren from Lund University in Sweden, that he was able to see outlines of the animal's original, flexible skin, along with evidence of blubber underneath.
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The study, by scientists in Spain, Ireland, Portugal, Slovenia and Britain, said concentrations of PCBs in the blubber of killer whales off Europe, as well as in striped dolphins and bottlenose dolphins, were among the highest recorded worldwide.
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Over 35 years, this amounts to a reduction in hunting season of up to seven weeks, which is a lot of time that mamma bears could be packing on the seal blubber and feeding it to their young.
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A blond gentlemen in a backwards cap uses a meat hook to drag chunks of blubber into a tide pool, tossing them with a schlop when the stuff hits rock and a splash when it hits standing water.
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These whales swim close to shore, and their fat content is so high that they would float long after death while whalers stripped their baleen for buggy whips and corsets and their blubber for lamp oil and soap.
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Lacking sufficient knowledge of Korean rap to place him in context, I'll compare him instead to Kevin Gates; both convey the sense that their tongues are too big for their mouths, so they can only blubber their lips.
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When neighborhood kids started calling him "Blubber" — a corruption of "Bubber," his brother's mispronunciation of brother — his mother gave him a simpler, easier-to-pronounce new name, Jud, "out of the clear blue sky," he wrote in his autobiography.
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More from Tonic: Writing this in late May, I'm not sure if I've acclimatized to having a lighter blubber cardigan or if I'm going to be wearing two pairs of socks and toting around a thermos of soup come October.
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"My guess would be just the angle and movement of the animal through the water is causing this distortion in appearance of the blubber and maybe muscle," Mandy Migura, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration marine mammal biologist, said via email.
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"What's most frustrating about 'The Romanoffs' is that there was clearly the potential for a decent show here, if it could have shed a few pounds of blubber and been given a stern talking to," Rebecca Nicholson wrote in The Guardian.
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In the streets surrounding my Pret of choice, weeping women are as common as Halal carts and pretzel stands; they cry on corners while clutching cell phones, or blubber into the collars of their blazers, while skyscrapers close in overhead.
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MINAMIBOSO, Japan (Reuters) - As Misako Komiya watched a crew of men in rubber boots peeling skin and blubber off a whale with long knives, she was already planning how to prepare the five kilos (10 lbs) of meat she intended to buy.
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Naturally, we had to blubber madly at talk to them about it, so we sat down with the Fab Five — Antoni Porowski, Bobby Berk, Karamo Brown, Jonathan Van Ness, and Tan France — on their press tour in Sydney to unpack episode 5.
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Every year our grade school class field-tripped to the town museum, where we heard stories about courageous Dutch and English settlers who harpooned and lanced whales before towing them ashore and using their flensing knives to cut blubber into long strips.
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This program invites families to follow a trail through the zoo that highlights creatures that are suited to chilly temperatures, like Pallas's cats, known for their long, dense fur, and sea lions, which have oily coats and a thick layer of blubber.
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Next time you're feeling like bailing on something important to you because someone says you don't deserve your dream, just remember that, once upon a time, a girl called "Blubber" by a bunch of bullies became one of the most celebrated actresses of a generation.
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To determine gender, identity and pregnancy rates, the scientists, led by Logan Pallin, a doctoral student working with Dr. Friedlaender, used darts to take small skin and blubber samples from 239 males and 268 females from 2010 to 2016 around the Western Antarctic Peninsula.
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As Oviuk told me the story, a few months later, we were sitting in the kitchen of his friend Steve Oomittuk, a former village mayor, eating strips of maktaaq —chewy beluga blubber—off a piece of cardboard that quickly grew sodden with whale oil.
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As I sat in a tearoom trying to warm up my extremities—my toes remained torpid for about an hour after I got out of the river, my feet like two slabs of blubber—I thought of the BMJ study, and the chemistry of my brain.
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Year after year he has witnessed the cruelties inflicted by fishing gear that most of us will never see: lines tightly cinched around flippers, fins and bodies, cutting through blubber, muscle and even bone; rope pulled through their mouths, fouling their baleen so they can't easily eat.
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How is it possible that in Greenland, Fridtjof Nansen (1861–1930), the famed Norwegian scientist, explorer, and politician, opened the stomach of a shark he'd caught and found a whole seal, eight large cods, a ling four feet long, a big halibut head, and several chunks of whale blubber?
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The white sharks — as described in a 2013 paper published in PLoS One by both Hammerschlag and Gallagher — were feasting on baleen whale carcasses off the coast of South Africa: they "would routinely regurgitate large chunks of whale blubber only to immediately return to the carcass and feed once again," the study says.
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Following a ritual toast of sake, which was also used to wash down the adzes and hooks used by the workers, the crew began slicing into the whale's back and stomach, peeling aside skin and attaching hooks used to pull off the blubber and then the meat inside with a crunchy ripping sound.
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It was nice thinking that you could melt off the layer of blubber that arose from all of those mugs of egg nog and handfuls of cheeseballs in a couple of weeks by just thinking of yourself as some kind of Moon Juice-ass, Jillian Michaels-inspired lifestyle guru, but it isn't going to happen.
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A "sandwich," made with cracker-like slices of dried cod skin, contains a thin piece of salted gannet, a seabird common to the Faroes; a thinner slice of salted blubber, butchered from one of the eight hundred or so whales slaughtered annually in a community hunt; and a sprinkle of fresh herbs foraged from the mountainsides.
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Photograph by Anne Golaz for The New Yorker A sandwich made with dried cod skin; a thin piece of salted gannet, a seabird common to the Faroes; a thinner slice of salted blubber, butchered from one of the eight hundred or so whales slaughtered annually in a community hunt; and a sprinkle of fresh herbs foraged from the mountainsides.
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He grudgingly gives "pampered" Kobe beef cattle a rub with a distilled spirit called shochu and takes his kids to lunch at a sumo "stable," where they wonderingly watch the rikishi ("two mammoth mounds of diapered blubber") collide in a premeal bout before sitting down to a vegetable-rich chicken and soy sauce chanko nabe hotpot.
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