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Перевод: narwhal

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Тезаурус:

1. Maximum lifespans may be much greater, some narwhal and spotted dolphin living to 40-;50 years, and the Baird's beaked whale possibly to the ripe old age of 70 years.
2. The beluga is closely related to the narwhal, and both are found mainly in the cold northern waters of Canada, Alaska, and the USSR.
3. Some of the world's rarest cetaceans, such as the narwhal, beluga, and harbour porpoise, are still being hunted and killed in the high latitudes of the Arctic.
4. In recent years sled dogs have been replaced by snowmobiles, so now the main incentive for the whale hunt is the narwhal's single ivory tusk.
5. This tooth tusk is thought to be used more for jousting matches than to help in feeding, and narwhal tusks brought back to Europe by early ocean adventurers almost certainly inspired the legends of the one-horned unicorn.
6. These include the curved canines and straight incisors of hippopotamus, walrus tusks, which project downwards from the upper jaw, the teeth of the sperm whale and the spirally twisted left tusk of the narwhal.
7. Examples average lifespans are 20 years for the common, bottlenose, and Ganges River dolphins, and 25 years for the narwhal.
8. The narwhal's tusk is an example (Figure 8.4).
9. The narwhal also has only two teeth, and in the male (and occasionally the female) one of these grows outwards to form a long, impressive, spiralling tusk.
10. Mounted above the painting was a six-foot narwhal horn.
11. The narwhal has developed other techniques to capture its food, such as sucking or blowing.
12. In far northern waters narwhal Monodon monoceros , beluga Delphinapterus leucas and Greenland right (bowhead) whale Balaena mysticetus have a circumpolar distribution along the ice edge and in loose pack.
13. For example, narwhal were traditionally hunted for food by the Inuit Eskimoes of the eastern Arctic region of Canada, who ate the outer layer of meat and skin ( muktuk ) and some of the red meat, and fed the remainder to their sled dogs.