In winter, marine mammals such as walruses, narwhals and belugas that do not migrate south, remain there.

Since the end of the whaling and sealing era, most of the islands' species have been able to increase their population again.

We want to be able to build technological artifacts that are maybe good for the world. We want to learn how to build biological artifacts, like people and whales and trees.

In his book Historia animalium (History of animals), Aristotle was careful enough to distinguish between the baleen whales and toothed whales, a taxonomical separation still used today.

For example, dolphins and whales are completely dependent on the marine environment for all stages of their life, whereas seals feed in the ocean, but breed on land.