Very terrible they were, big beyond man-size, more stalwart and more finely knit than the Forlorn Hopers who had led the attack so happily and gloriously frustrated by the Crabs, the Narwhals and the Sea Urchins.
See theNarwhals start,” she added, “and then back to your posts with all speed.
A great number of white whales, seals, and narwhals were also playing about near the beach during the night.
Narwhals make annual migrations in response to the movement of the ice.
Narwhals have small rounded heads and a small mouth.
Further, swimming narwhals frequently buck their heads up to breathe, a behavior which makes the tusk of adult males visible and permits positive identification.
Natural History Notes The function of the tusk in male narwhals is unknown, but it was this feature of the animal that earned it the name "unicorn whale" and resulted in its extensive hunting by whalers.
Belugas are usually all white or light slate gray in color, while narwhals are very much darker, ranging from bluish gray to brownish, and are often covered with light leopardlike spots.
May Be Confused With Narwhals are so different in coloration from the only medium-sized cetacean which shares its range and habitat--the beluga--that the two are highly unlikely to be confused.
Stranded Specimens Stranded narwhals should be easily identifiable by the distinctive coloration and the unique characteristics of the teeth.
During their annual migrations narwhals may congregate but are commonly found in groups of 10 or fewer during the rest of the year.
Narwhals feed on a variety of organisms, including cod, rockfish, flounder, and crabs, but their diet consists primarily of squid.
Distribution Narwhals are found in the high arctic seas of the western North Atlantic, primarily in Lancaster Sound and its fringes.
Narwhals played in schools, far off shore, and usually along the edges of some large ice field, their long ivory tusks rising under spouts of breath and spray.
Our success was not too soon, for now the narwhalssuddenly disappeared, and we saw no more of them.
Here narwhals and bears were secured, and through Talbot's Fiord a short pass was discovered over Ellesmere Land to the musk ox country of the west shores.
Again we pursued narwhals and secured another fine male with a four-foot horn.
Narwhals were very difficult to capture with the appliances in use at this time, the harpoon gun being only effective at ten or fifteen yards.
There were only white whales and somenarwhals around.
The loose ice had drifted away, and as the afternoon was very fine the Captain decided to try the unies, as the narwhals were called, and I went with him.
Numbers of narwhals around during the afternoon, induced a boat to follow them, and a big female was secured with a calf.
I often saw narwhals raise their tusks out of the water, and when black whales were taking a final header, on starting for a long dive, they generally threw the tail up in the air in a graceful manner.
About midnight all was quiet, except for the heavy breathing of the narwhals and white whales in the sea, and of those who slept in the boat; it was easy enough to sleep, sitting at an oar.
Several narwhals were seen during the afternoon, but we paid no attention to them.
Before turning in I spent an hour on deck and heard narwhals and white whales breathing about us all the time.
Curious that there should be so many narwhals in the lanes here.
Every one hurried on deck, and we now saw that some seven or eight female narwhals were gambolling in the channel close upon us.
On September 6th we saw the last narwhals gambolling in the lanes around the ship, and a few days later the last flock of skuas (Lestris parasiticus) took their departure.
There was a whole school of narwhalsin the lane breathing and blowing ceaselessly.
The hunamockings of this morning had ceased; the wind so gentle as hardly to be perceptible: the lead before me was an open river of water, and in it were narwhals (M.
Narwhals are only found in the half-frozen seas of the far north, where they are sometimes seen swimming side by side together in large companies.
But then again, female narwhals require air just as they require food.
But the female narwhals require food just as much as the males do; how is it that they are not provided with tusks also?
At any rate, narwhals have several times been seen as they were taking part in a kind of make-believe battle, and striking and clashing their tusks together just as though they were fencing with swords.
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