{"id":3373,"date":"2013-07-12T00:07:35","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T00:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/islenzka.net\/?p=3373"},"modified":"2013-07-12T00:07:35","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T00:07:35","slug":"hybrid-whale-in-skjalfandafloi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/islenzka.net\/hybrid-whale-in-skjalfandafloi\/","title":{"rendered":"Hybrid Whale In Skj\u00e1lfandafl\u00f3i?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"whale\"<\/p>\n

Iceland has been in the news a lot recently due to the resumption of whaling, but it isn’t just fishermen who are interested in these creatures. Researchers are investigating what is believed to be a hybrid species of blue and fin whale that was spotted in the waters of Skj\u00e1lfandafl\u00f3i.<\/p>\n

F\u00e1g\u00e6t hvalategund \u00e1 Skj\u00e1lfandafl\u00f3a<\/strong><\/a>
\nRare whale species in Skj\u00e1lfandafl\u00f3i<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hvalur sem hugsanlega er talinn blendingur steypirey\u00f0ar og langrey\u00f0ar hefur s\u00e9st \u00e1 Skj\u00e1lfandafl\u00f3a undanfari\u00f0. Freista \u00e1 \u00feess einhvern n\u00e6stu daga a\u00f0 taka s\u00fdni \u00far hvalnum til a\u00f0 sta\u00f0festa hvort um blending er a\u00f0 r\u00e6\u00f0a.<\/strong><\/p>\n

What that might be considered a mix of blue whale and fin whale has been seen in Skj\u00e1lfandafl\u00f3i recently. Someone will attempt to retrieve a specimen from the whale in the coming days in order to verify whether it is in fact a hybrid.<\/em><\/p>\n

Compound alert – hvala\u00b7tegund<\/strong> \ud83d\ude42 So you could probably make a similar word out of whatever animal you like, here it’s hvalur<\/strong> in the genitive plural, hvala<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
a\u00f0 freista – to try, attempt<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/th>\npresent<\/th>\npast<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00e9g<\/th>\nfreista<\/td>\nfreista\u00f0i<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00fe\u00fa<\/th>\nfreistar<\/td>\nfreista\u00f0ir<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00fea\u00f0<\/th>\nfreistar<\/td>\nfreista\u00f0i<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
vi\u00f0<\/th>\nfreistum<\/td>\nfreistu\u00f0um<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00fei\u00f0<\/th>\nfreisti\u00f0<\/td>\nfreistu\u00f0u\u00f0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00feau<\/th>\nfreista<\/td>\nfreistu\u00f0u<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n  <\/td>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
a\u00f0 sta\u00f0festa – to confirm, verify<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/th>\npresent<\/th>\npast<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00e9g<\/th>\nsta\u00f0festi<\/td>\nsta\u00f0festi<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00fe\u00fa<\/th>\nsta\u00f0festir<\/td>\nsta\u00f0festir<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00fea\u00f0<\/th>\nsta\u00f0festir<\/td>\nsta\u00f0festi<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
vi\u00f0<\/th>\nsta\u00f0festum<\/td>\nsta\u00f0festum<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00fei\u00f0<\/th>\nsta\u00f0festi\u00f0<\/td>\nsta\u00f0festu\u00f0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00feau<\/th>\nsta\u00f0festa<\/td>\nsta\u00f0festu<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

\u00deetta er ekki \u00ed fyrsta sinn sem \u00feessi einkennilegi hvalur s\u00e9st \u00e1 Skj\u00e1lfandafl\u00f3a, \u00fev\u00ed hvalasko\u00f0unarmenn \u00e1 H\u00fasav\u00edk telja sig hafa s\u00e9\u00f0 hann \u00e1 fl\u00f3anum fyrir tveimur \u00e1rum. St\u00e6r\u00f0 og litur hvalsins bendir til a\u00f0 \u00fearna s\u00e9 steypirey\u00f0ur \u00e1 fer\u00f0inni en bakugginn er eins og \u00e1 langrey\u00f0i. G\u00edsli V\u00edkingsson, hvalas\u00e9rfr\u00e6\u00f0ingur hj\u00e1 Hafranns\u00f3knarstofnun<\/a>, segir a\u00f0 b\u00e6\u00f0i geti veri\u00f0 um a\u00f0 r\u00e6\u00f0a steypirey\u00f0i e\u00f0a langrey\u00f0i, en mi\u00f0a\u00f0 vi\u00f0 \u00fatlit hvalsins s\u00e9 freistandi a\u00f0 \u00e1lykta a\u00f0 \u00feetta s\u00e9 blendingur af \u00feessu tvennu.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is not the first time this peculiar whale has been seen in Skj\u00e1lfandafl\u00f3i, as whale watchers in Husavik say they have seen it in the bays over the past two years. The size and color of the whale points to it being a blue whale on the move, but the dorsal fin is just like a fin whale. G\u00edsli V\u00edkingsson, whale specialist at the Marine Research Institute<\/a>, says that it could be either a blue or a fin whale, but considering the whale’s appearance it’s tempting to conclude that it is a hybrid of the two.<\/em><\/p>\n

I wasn’t sure if cetologist<\/em> was the right word for hvalas\u00e9rfr\u00e6\u00f0ingur<\/strong>, so left it generic.<\/p>\n

\u201e\u00c1st\u00e6\u00f0a \u00feess a\u00f0 okkur grunar \u00feetta er a\u00f0 vi\u00f0 h\u00f6fum n\u00fa \u00feegar fj\u00f6gur sta\u00f0fest d\u00e6mi um kynblendinga af langrey\u00f0i og steypirey\u00f0i vi\u00f0 \u00cdslandsstrendur og \u00fea\u00f0 var reyndar \u00ed fyrsta sinn sem s\u00fdnt var fram \u00e1 sl\u00edkt \u00ed heiminum 1986, \u00feegar vi\u00f0 fundum \u00feann fyrsta. \u00deetta d\u00fdr hefur d\u00e1l\u00edti\u00f0 svipm\u00f3t af \u00feessum fj\u00f3rum sem vi\u00f0 \u00feekkjum n\u00fa \u00feegar og \u00feess vegna grunar okkur a\u00f0 h\u00e9r s\u00e9 um a\u00f0 r\u00e6\u00f0a einn \u00ed vi\u00f0b\u00f3t\u201c, segir G\u00edsli.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“The reason we suspect this is that we have four confirmed examples of cross-breeding among fin whales and blue whales in Icelandic waters, the first time in fact being back in 1986, when we found the first one. This animal bears a certain resemblance to the other four we know of, so we suspect that this is the case of an additional one.”, says G\u00edsli.
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

The verb a\u00f0 gruna<\/strong> can be used both as an impersonal and a personal verb – in this paragraph it appears as an impersonal verb in the phrase okkur grunar<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
a\u00f0 gruna – to suspect<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/th>\npresent<\/th>\npast<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00e9g<\/th>\ngruna<\/td>\ngruna\u00f0i<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00fe\u00fa<\/th>\ngrunar<\/td>\ngruna\u00f0ir<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00fea\u00f0<\/th>\ngrunar<\/td>\ngruna\u00f0i<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
vi\u00f0<\/th>\ngrunum<\/td>\ngrunu\u00f0um<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00fei\u00f0<\/th>\ngruni\u00f0<\/td>\ngrunu\u00f0u\u00f0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00feau<\/th>\ngruna<\/td>\ngrunu\u00f0u<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Til a\u00f0 sta\u00f0festa a\u00f0 svo s\u00e9, segir hann nau\u00f0synlegt a\u00f0 n\u00e1 h\u00fa\u00f0s\u00fdni \u00far d\u00fdrinu, en \u00fea\u00f0 er gert me\u00f0 \u00fev\u00ed a\u00f0 skj\u00f3ta \u00ed \u00fea\u00f0 s\u00e9r\u00fatb\u00fainni \u00f6r. Hann segir lei\u00f0angur \u00ed b\u00edger\u00f0 um a\u00f0 setja gervihnattamerki \u00e1 steypirey\u00f0i og til standi a\u00f0 taka h\u00fa\u00f0s\u00fdni \u00far \u00feessu d\u00fdri \u00ed lei\u00f0inni.<\/strong><\/p>\n

To confirm that this is the case, he says it is necessary to obtain a skin sample from the animal, which is done by firing a specially-made dart into the whale. He says a trip is in the works to place a satellite tracking device on the whale and take a skin sample from the animal.<\/em><\/p>\n

\r\nf\u00e1\u00b7g\u00e6tur adj            rare, uncommon\r\nhvalur (m)              whale\r\ntegund (f)              type, kind; species\r\nblendingur (m)          mixture, compound; cross-breed\r\nhugsan\u00b7legur adj        possible, conceivable\r\nsteypi\u00b7rey\u00f0ur (f)       blue whale\r\nlang\u00b7rey\u00f0ur (f)         fin whale\r\nfreista v (gen)         attempt, try\r\ns\u00fdni (n)                specimen\r\n\r\neinkenni\u00b7legur adj      peculiar, odd\r\nbak\u00b7uggi (m)            dorsal fin\r\n\u00e1\u00b7lykta v               conclude, deduce \r\n\u00fat\u00b7lit (n)              appearance, look \r\nfreistandi indecl       tempting\r\n\r\nsvip\u00b7m\u00f3t (n)            appearance, look\r\ngruna v (acc)           suspect\r\nkyn\u00b7blendingur (m)      half-breed\r\nstr\u00f6nd (f)              shoreline, coast\r\n\u00ed vi\u00f0b\u00f3t                in addition\r\n\r\nh\u00fa\u00f0 (f)                 skin, hide\r\ns\u00e9r\u00b7\u00fatb\u00fainn adj         specially-designed\r\n\u00f6r (f)                  arrow, dart \r\nlei\u00f0angur (m)           expedition\r\nvera \u00ed b\u00edger\u00f0           to be planned, in the works\r\ngervi\u00b7hn\u00f6ttur (m)       satellite\r\n<\/pre>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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