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| Petunia | Dec 5 2011, 09:43 PM Post #1 |
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December 1, 2011, 7:30 AM Among Hundreds of Dead Dolphins, an Intriguing Survivor By RACHEL NUWER Four more dolphins washed up on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico this week. For coastal residents from Louisiana to Florida, the beached animals are a familair sight: hundreds of decomposing dolphin carcasses have turned up over the last two years. But last week, Alabama residents came across a stranded dolphin that was still alive, though badly injured. Moby Solangi, director of the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies in Gulfport, Miss., where the rescued dolphin is being cared for and studied, said the discovery presented the institute's first opportunity in two years to examine a live dolphin that was ill. The researchers hope that studying the dolphin will yield clues to the principal cause of the die-off. "People in Alabama call it Chance," Dr. Solangi said of the survivor. Residents found the dolphin, a male about 2 years old and six feet long, on Nov. 23 in a marshy area near the mouth of Mobile Bay. They tried to push it back into the water, but it continued to beach itself. When rescue workers arrived, they noted that the mammal was severely dehydrated, covered with scrapes and bruises, and plagued by parasites like barnacles and nematodes. They gave it a 50-50 chance of survival. It is holding on and perhaps recovering, although it is still "not out of the woods," Dr. Solangi said. Since Feb. 1, 2010, nearly 600 bottlenose dolphins, a species that under federal law is protected but not technically endangered, have washed ashore in the region. Normally, only about 60 dead dolphins wash up each year on the Gulf Coast. (A map below highlights the locations where they were found.) "There's no way to determine at this point if stranding rates will go down," said Teri Rowles, coordinator of marine mammal health and the stranding response program at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Many residents suggest that the three-month Deepwater Horizon oil spill, which began in April 2010, is responsible. Scientists say it is too soon to tell. Researchers from about 20 federal, state and academic organizations are collaborating to find a cause for the deaths. full story at link: http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/01/among-hundreds-of-dead-an-intriguing-survivor/ |
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| Robby | Dec 6 2011, 12:06 AM Post #2 |
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It is so sad to read that the dolphins are beaching themselves........what freaks me out is the whale hunting that contuines to be promoted ...... and the we wonder why nature in her full force pays karma to the humans!!!! Disturbing pic's http://totallycoolpix.com/2011/11/whale-hunting-in-the-faroe-islands/
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| yass | Dec 6 2011, 09:40 AM Post #3 |
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It's just plain disturbing. It's hard to find words and easy to feel sorrow and grief for their plight. |
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| Petunia | Dec 6 2011, 05:15 PM Post #4 |
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It shows what a huge cover-up BP and our own government have been doing on the Gulf oil leak and the deadly Corexit chemical BP sprayed everywhere with our government's allowance. |
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| yass | Dec 7 2011, 02:56 PM Post #5 |
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robby, I was looking in my earthquake news results yesterday and ran across the news that in Japan they are using the Earthquake relief funds to fund... whaling! Anger over earthquake funds used to subsidise Japan's whaling TONY EASTLEY: Japan's whaling fleet has left its home port for another season in the Southern Ocean and it's getting there courtesy of extra money kicked in from the nation's earthquake recovery fund. The Japanese fleet will have beefed-up security after its last season was cut short by the Sea Shepherd anti-whaling group. But there's anger in Japan and elsewhere about how that's being paid for. The Japan Fisheries Agency says it's a legitimate use of the earthquake money because one of the towns devastated by the March quake was a whaling port. Adam Harvey takes up the story. ADAM HARVEY: Three vessels have set sail from the port of Shimonoseki in western Japan. Their mission, to catch 900 whales over the next three months in the icy waters of the Southern Ocean. Read more at http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2011/s3385164.htm |
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