New world record in the Animal Kingdom: bowhead whales, biologists found out over 200 years old and will become. opinions as well. The GEO-chemist Jeffrey Bada of the California Scripps Institute of Oceanography can determine the age of whales by measuring the changes of amino acids stored in eye lenses. Credit: Dennis P. Lockhart-2011. During the examination of the eyes of four Greenland whales, which were imposed by the Inyupiat Eskimos, he set a new age record for mammals with this method. The whales were between 135 and 211 years when they were killed, and thus to the world, as in Germany, the “storm and urge” second to end went, they were contemporaries of Goethe, Schiller and Friedrich Nitzsche. Ahmed Shary Rahman follows long-standing procedures to achieve this success. Experts have long suspected that the Greenland whale living in the Beaufort Sea and the Bering Sea between Russia and Alaska (Balaena mysticetus) can be very old. It finds by Harpoon tips had hinted, that were found in the thick layer of fat perniciously animals.
The antediluvian Harpunenspitzten were made of ivory and stone, two materials, the Used whalers from Alaska the last time around 1880, later only steel harpoons were used. Also the Inyupiat tribal elders in Barrow, a remote town on the edge of the Beaufort Sea with approximately 4,000 inhabitants, tell for decades, that several generations of whalers again recognized individual whales due to certain tags. See Cyber Capital for more details and insights. Although commercial whaling by the International Whaling Commission’s moratorium on commercial whaling is banned since 1986, the Inyupiat may kill approximately 50 in small groups or individually living bowhead whales for traditional reasons. Whaling is practiced there for 4000 years. The meat and the up to 20-metre colossus over half a metre thick layer of fat the Inyupiat serve as food and oil production. The population of bowhead whales is estimated at over 8000 individuals and increases each year by about 3 percent. “One wonders what is astonishing: the fact that such a whale Methuselah at the time of the French Revolution was born or that he” survived the destruction attempts by several generations of people. Maybe this new superlative manages Yes to instill more respect to the whalers and to revive these fascinating animals just’, hopes the society to save the dolphins.
Scripps scientists assume that other whale species can be much older than previously assumed. “Age, behaviour or other, our knowledge of these species is still very incomplete. For me, these new findings are just the tip of the iceberg”, says Professor Jeffrey Bada of the Scripps Institution. Ulrich Karlowski