The thick fat, or blubber, under the whale's skin protects the animal against cold waters. It is for the valuable oil in blubber that whale are hunted.
Underneath their fur, polar bears have an additional 10-cm-layer of fat, called blubber.
When the whale is killed, the blubber is stripped off and boiled down, either on board ship or on shore.
A number of studies in recent years have revealed a variety of toxic pollutants in dolphin blubber, including PCBs, PBDE flame retardants and the pesticide DDT.
Children cry, you let her blubber it.
The blubber helps to stop them from losing their body heat.
They make its hide into clothing and its flesh into food. The blubber is user for fuel.
Tom, wiping his eyes with his sleeve, began to blubber out something about a resolution to escape from hard usage and lack of sympathy at home by roaming abroad into the great world never to return;
Frozen whale blubber is stored outside a house in Kaktovik.
But my fur and a thick layer of blubber make it so I don't need a real house.
Once whales were hunted for whale-bone as well as for blubber. So many whales were killed that it was feared they might die international code was set up to protect them.
Whales were important for their meat, and for their bones, and for their blubber.
Keeping warm: Just like the polar bear and the otter, it is possible that humans develop an extra layer of "blubber" to keep warm.
The baby whale develops a thick layer of blubber to protect it from the cold sea.
The whale blubber is rendered down to make oil.
To begin, soon after a dolphin sustains an injury such as a shark bite, surrounding blubber appears to extend a whitish layer over the exposed area to protect it.
It is for the valuable oil in blubber that whales are hunted.
Deep cuts: Whalers peel back a layer of fat, or blubber, before harvesting the meat underneath on July 30 in Wada Port.
The southern elephant seal too would be brought low, killed in great Numbers for the oil rendered from its blubber.
