Notable exceptions are the nearly song-like choruses of bowhead whales in summer and the complex, haunting utterances of the humpback whales. 值得注意的例外是,弓头鲸会在夏天唱歌,座头鲸会发出复杂得吓人的声音。
bowhead
[ noun ] large-mouthed Arctic whale <noun.animal>
Bowhead \Bow"head`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) The great Arctic or Greenland whale. ({Bal[ae]na mysticetus}). See {Baleen}, and {Whale}.
Visitors from the West are rarer than the bowhead whales that swim off the coast here, because the Alaska-Siberia crossing has been closed for 40 years.
To underscore his point, 20 miles offshore, the flipper of a bowhead whale is frozen in the ice and has attracted more than a half-dozen foraging polar bears.
Even experienced bowhead whales, equipped with thick skulls to break through ice, get hemmed in. About 10 to 12 of them perish each year off northern Alaska, biologists said.