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A lifetime of love for the charismatic narwhal
An independent scientist working with the Inuit has unraveled many mysteries of the one-tusked ‘unicorn of the sea’
He has a degree in English and biology, a working dental practice, and a side interest in zoology and anthropology; he has composed for documentary films and has become an expert on narwhals — the mysterious, one-toothed “unicorns of the sea.” I went up to the northern tip of Baffin Island to a town called Pond Inlet and was introduced to David Angnatsiak, the area’s best Inuit hunter and head of search and rescue, now deceased. There is just the extinct Odobenocetops, which was found off the coast of Peru: It’s a whale that had two, asymmetric tusks, and interestingly, as noted in the recent article in the Annual Review of Animal Biosciences, they have similar dentinal tubules open to the surface.
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