Blubber

This blubber can help with buoyancy, protection to some extent as predators would have a hard time getting through a thick layer of fat, and energy for leaner times; the primary usage for blubber is insulation from the harsh climate.

Are the bearings all being greased with whale blubber?

In mere decades, the global economy performed an incredible about-turn, and weaned itself off blubber – and on to crude oil.

Larger whales are more likely to explode, as they have more flesh and blubber to decompose and produce gas.

Local foods such as muskox, seal, Arctic char and whale skin and blubber can also be purchased at Nunavut Country Food in Iqaluit or Kitikmeot Foods in Cambridge Bay.

On the business end, there is a 3cm metal tip that plucks a piece of skin and blubber from the whale’s body.

Their body condition, as measured by their blubber, seems healthy.

The whales then return to the Antarctic after the baby develops a layer of blubber to protect itself from the colder waters.

It was not difficult for hunters to drive them to the beaches, lance them through the heart (or, later, shoot them in the skull), drain their blood and remove their blubber.

A single blue whale could provide about 50 tons of blubber that was used to produce cosmetics, soap, cooking oil and oil for lamps and wax for candles while the skin was converted to fine leather for corsets and umbrellas.

Belgian and French scientists said they’ve detected high accumulations of industrial fluids and mercury in the blubber and skin of dolphins in the Normanno-Breton Gulf, off the northwest coast of France.

He was dreaming of landing even bigger fish, of building a global firm trading in whale blubber.

They took blubber and feces samples hoping to find evidence that would reveal the cause of the unexpected mortality event.

After the large pieces had fallen, it began to rain small particles of foul-smelling blubber.

It argues, too, that the imagination of parents could jarringly alter a child's features, warning that the "force of imagination" could produce a baby with "a hairy lip, wry mouth or great blubber-lips".

It seems that they were on to something since a new study, which described a wonderfully preserved specimen, identified a blubber.

When she was growing up, her family always put McCormick’s Salt ‘n Spice on Maktak, which is frozen whale blubber and skin.

After initially feeding on the whale caudal peduncle and fluke, the sharks would investigate the carcass by slowly swimming around it and mouthing several parts before selecting a blubber-rich area.

A smooth layer of blubber lies underneath the skin.

But the man's reaction was a direct consequence of the symbol of "blubber" representing something inedible in his mind.