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Why Has a Tropical Whale Carcass Washed Up on Our Cold Shores?
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A Bryde’s whale? That’s freaking insane. That’s like finding a cockatoo in your shower. Seriously lost. But why? Something fucking terrible is going on in the Pacific.
I blame climate change.
Yeah, it’d be nice if we could pump more money into the NOAA than NASA.
And, shouldn’t NASA have found heaven by now?
Poor thing. Something must have happened to the mother for her/him to get so swept off track.
sensing an epic mudede post on this soon
This comes on the tail of that whole business of the missing sealions (they migrated, actually):
http://www.care2.com/causes/animal-welfa…
The majority of the real climate change may be taking place in the oceans rather than on land.
Sea levels falling.
IPCC predictions 100 percent wrong.
There is only one thing to do with beached whales:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFwxH3PPW…
(search “whale + dynamite” if the link craps out)
You mean, nobody knows except Slog commenters, who all happen to be opinionated lawyers, too!
blame El Nino
It was out looking for all the Thames eels.
@11 – They both had horrible, life-changing run-ins with those gyres of plastic in the Sargasso and … somewhere unnamed in the Pacific.
@5 – Good call.
@3, you got both me and my roomie giggling. Just so’s you know. Thanks.
@13 Me too.
Clearly, we have to blow it up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtVSzU20Z…
I blame people and their mass-depletion of oceanic food stocks.
yeah, kinda feels like an ill-omen of doom from the devil, doesn’t it?
I’d be thrilled to find a cockatoo in my shower.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_Mamm…
No-one has suggested sonar yet?
@19 – hahahaha. Me too, now you mention it.