Title: Whaletrips | Narwhals - The best time and place to watch narwhals
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Male narwhals have a two to three meter long tusk, which makes them unique and impossible to confuse.
Where and when NARWHALS
Chances to meet narwhals are best during summer along the coast of Arctic Bay, Pond Inlet or Resolute Bay in Arctic Canada and in Thule in the north of Greenland.
Best places NARWHALS
Canada's east coast is a true whale watching hotspot - with great coastal roads and national parks.
Best places NARWHALS
Those who want to see narwhals and belugas have to travel far north. To the Canadian Arctic, for instance.
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Greenland is certainly one of the most impressive places to visit - also from a whale watching point of view.
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In Alaska you can observe lots of whales during summer. First and foremost, however, Alaska is bear country.
Best places NARWHALS
Canada's east coast is a true whale watching hotspot - with great coastal roads and national parks.
Best places NARWHALS
Those who want to see narwhals and belugas have to travel far north. To the Canadian Arctic, for instance.
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Content: To this, their horn isn’t a horn but a tusk, breaking through the upper lip of almost all young male animals. It grows in a pointed spiral, weighs about 10 kilos and can get up to 3 meters long. Some animals have even two of those tusks; females usually don’t have one at all. The use of the tusk is not completely explored, yet. A long time ago, the tusk was said to have magic healing powers, especially in Asia, where tiger testicles and shark fins are also believed to hold special powers. This made narwhals a lucrative prey, when selling them to Asian markets. In Europe, the narwhal tusk was just sold as a unicorn horn, probably at an even higher price than the ones in Asia. All that made narwhals – and especially their tusk – a prime target for whalers of the 19th and 20th century. Only the males have a tusk, the females (normally) do not.