There is typically one chance to harpoon the whale. If the hunt is successful, each person in the village can receive a share of the meat. A butchered bowhead whale can yield thousands of pounds ...

For the first time in almost three decades, a bowhead whale will be harvested in the Northwest Territories. Hunters in Aklavik, N.W.T., will make the catch, and the whale meat will be distributed ...

FEEDING: Bowhead whales are baleen whales, meaning they use a comb-like strainer made of hundreds of long, narrow baleen plates attached to their upper jaws to filter large amounts of plankton.

Drones solve a 170-year-old mystery about bowhead whale behaviour Bowhead whales live up to 200 years and have a range over vast distances. For the last 170 years, local Inuit have observed that ...