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- tman9084, on 11/30/2008, -3/+30This is too bad. Does anyone else see the irony in Pilot Whales loosing their way?
- inactive, on 11/30/2008, -0/+20Sad stuff. And excuse me if this is an ignorant question, but has anyone explained the reason for these recent strandings? Hopefully, this won't become a long-term trend.
- replaysMike, on 11/30/2008, -4/+21This is terrible news - just think of how many Japanese fisherman there are that will go hungry!
- Sornos, on 11/30/2008, -4/+19Whales have always beached themselves. You can see paintings from the 16th century. Unless the stores about the Philadelphia Project is true, we didn't exactly have sonar capability back then. Sonar and anti-submarine warfare may cause some disruption and even death, but it is not a leading cause of beaching.
- zerries, on 11/30/2008, -2/+14Sad day when the whales would rather kill themselves then swim in the ocean anymore.
- palehorse864, on 11/30/2008, -2/+12The pilot whales sadly got separated from their navigator whales.
- JDoms, on 11/30/2008, -1/+11ain't life a beach?
- x88justy, on 11/30/2008, -1/+11If whale beachings are similar to the penguin beaching recently in Rio de Janeiro, it was caused by starvation that was caused by a changes in the ocean environment that caused either the food source or the whales to not be in their normal places.
- lopla, on 11/30/2008, -3/+12Ask the US Navy what happened. Just a bit of collateral damage from their new high intensity sonar..
- greencoat, on 11/30/2008, -1/+7So long, and thanks for all the fish.
- mickstephenson, on 11/30/2008, -0/+6I have a completely unsubstantiated theory, I remember something I read or watched before that it has recently been shown that larger cetaceans will kill smaller ones, either through sport or to protect their own fishing grounds.
And the method of whaling Pilot whales in the Faroe Islands is to herd them towards the shore and scaring and bullying them into beaching themselves. Predatory Cetaceans use this herding tactic also on fish, is it possible that perhaps these Pilot Whales were herded onto the beach by larger Killer Whales? - spyd3rweb, on 11/30/2008, -4/+9We must outlaw whale beaching!
- Trixie65, on 11/30/2008, -0/+5I wish we knew why they did this!!!
- SuperCujo, on 11/30/2008, -1/+5Citation?
Or unsubstantiated rumour? - ZincSaucier, on 11/30/2008, -1/+5all's whale that ends whale
- kennyidaho, on 11/30/2008, -1/+5buried for telling the truth?
- seltaeb4, on 11/30/2008, -0/+3Sand was their co-pilot.
- MedicalMatt, on 11/30/2008, -5/+8What on earth is happening to our oceans?
- greencoat, on 11/30/2008, -0/+3If only it had been Carlos Mencia...
- kivab4b, on 11/30/2008, -0/+3Read this article which answers the question as to why whales beach themselves http://www.physorg.com/news128351475.html There are many causes and some pretty unavoidable. So the mammoth task is to rehab and release them once the whales get beached.
- jmpeagle, on 11/30/2008, -2/+4whale Jonestown
- dtele, on 11/30/2008, -1/+3A picture of the bloody beach at Sandy Cape today
WARNING - GRAPHIC
http://digg.com/world_news/80_whales_die_in_beach_ ... - SuperCujo, on 11/30/2008, -1/+3But they only use them for research.
- TigerStar337, on 11/30/2008, -0/+2A Supreme Court ruling recently has lifted a banned on the US Navy's use of new sonar technology. This seems very fishy...now the whales are dieing again and all.
- HotSaucePanCake, on 11/30/2008, -0/+2I just read that the number was closer to 150, that is really sad.
- iammzac, on 11/30/2008, -1/+3Where is Whale Rider when you need her?
- Amberdextrous, on 11/30/2008, -5/+7And I thought John McCain was a ***** pilot
- greencoat, on 11/30/2008, -0/+2From the wiki: Pilot Whales are amongst the most common and widely-distributed of the marine mammals in the cetacean order.
Maybe the other guys are just looking to settle the score? - SuperCujo, on 11/30/2008, -0/+2At least we still have whales along our coastline...
I'd to see an environmental audit of Australia against the US and see how that turns out. I'm fairly confident, we haven't ***** things up anywhere near as bad as the US has. - SuperCujo, on 11/30/2008, -0/+2The lost their way, maybe they had a screw loose.
- Nintendesert, on 11/30/2008, -0/+2I for one find it to be a perfect explanation as to why whales have been doing this throughout recorded history.
- Rivetgeek, on 11/30/2008, -0/+2you set loose the hounds but you lose your keys.
- mickstephenson, on 11/30/2008, -0/+2I liked this idea so much I have been thinking about it all day http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/eaam/am/2006 ... It turns out that mass Orca strandings are extremely rare, infact the only recorded incident of this appears to have happened in 2006, if the incident is so low in Orcas surely that is a good indication that the reason this so rarely happens is that other Orcas are the cause. I don't know if this hypothesis is a major hypothesis in Marine biology circles, but to me as a purely logical argument it makes alot of sense.
- doublefelix, on 11/30/2008, -0/+2Definitely attributable to Pilot error.
- mickstephenson, on 11/30/2008, -0/+2http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot_whale pilot whales are dolphins, as are killer whales, don't let the name throw you.
- edwardkelly, on 11/30/2008, -0/+1Speechless
At first I thought all that red was seaweed
I guess it was high-tide and they smashed against those rocks
How terribly sad - airmann90, on 11/30/2008, -1/+2Population Control.
- DigitalisAkujin, on 11/30/2008, -2/+3This has always happened throughout the 3 billions years of life to many billions of organisms. It's not global warming. That's way too much of a light event in the grand scheme of things.
- esteskid, on 11/30/2008, -0/+1So sad that it should come to this.
- slapthemonkey, on 12/01/2008, -0/+1A sad story
- greencoat, on 11/30/2008, -0/+1They are joining the dolphins.
- inactive, on 11/30/2008, -0/+1The ninja pirates are responsible - manning the harpoons.
- howdareyou, on 11/30/2008, -0/+1What does a Navy experiment rumored to have taken place in the 1940s have to do with the 16th century? Not to mention the Philadelphia Project/Experiment dealt with rendering the USS Eldridge invisible, it had nothing to do with sonar.
Also, sonar was around in the 1600s as it was first tested by Da Vinci in the 1400s, though I agree 16th century paintings of whale breachings prove that whales were dieing long before sonar was used by the military in the early 1900s. - Bfettmaul, on 11/30/2008, -0/+1So long and thanks for all the fish!
- SuperCujo, on 11/30/2008, -0/+1But sonar wasn't invented until 1913 and whales were stranding themselves for centuries before that.
It may be a perfectly acceptable explanation for the mass beachings of whales, but without any form of evidence or research to back up the claim, it means nothing. - pingudownunder, on 11/30/2008, -0/+1you missed the /sarcasm
- SuperCujo, on 11/30/2008, -0/+1Humans knowingly kill themselves by smoking tobacco, I'd say the whales and dolphins have us there...
- inactive, on 11/30/2008, -0/+1WHALE WARS
- hfactor, on 11/30/2008, -1/+1It may have happened in the past, but that doesn't mean sonar isn't the leading cause today.
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