Very impressive.
Barf article.
The usual communist crap.
Starting with the usual revelation, “Inupiat whalers (who are still allowed to hunt for survival)”.
So, non-white humans count for more than whales. Got it. White humans less. Got it.
Is Hillary that old?
I am ashamed of the human race...........NOT.
I still use my whale oil lamps !
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Baleen whales have been found to live longer than toothed cetaceans ... because they eat a lot of red krill. :)
Expensive stuff unless you’re a whale.
The whales have all cast ballots for Dem politicians since Lincoln’s time
Wow-since whales in general appear to like humans, it might be a good idea to have some marine biologists get friendly with some whales-swim/hang out with them-collect some DNA, watch their habits, feed them treats, etc to learn what they are doing right to live so long and healthy. That would be some great research to do...
I don’t really think it is a good idea for anyone to be killing/eating an animal that lives so long-it almost made them extinct once already. Those Inupiak who are “still allowed to hunt for survival” are NOT doing it to survive-they hunt game with guns, cook and eat it just like the rest of us do most of the time-it is just a custom and no doubt a way to make extra money-they probably sell whale meat/oil/, etc to tourists as something to take photos of, eat, etc. Alaska is a big, beautiful place with lots of animal species-let them find some less-endangered animal to carve up as a custom and for tourist $$$$$...
Just think how harmful offshore windmills are to them. Just say yes to drilling and no to offshore windmills.
Back in the early 1980’s I was performing research at the university that required surveys being mailed out to corporate executives.
While the survey responses appeared to be anonymous, I never stated they were.
An old printer gave me a bottle of whale oil that I put in my Bates automatic number stamping machine. The oil was clear and invisible on the back of the paper. However, under a black light the oil printed numbers were clearly visible.
Whale oil can be used to write on paper and the paper appears blank until it’s help under a black light.
... traditional Inupiat whalers (who are still allowed to hunt for survival) unlike the Makah tribe, on the western most point of US side of the Strait of Juan De Fuca, who hunt whales for cash in strict contravention of the Treaty of Neah Bay, 1855
https://goia.wa.gov/tribal-government/treaty-neah-bay-1855
“not sperm whales like the fictional Moby Dick
‘The True-Life Horror That Inspired ‘Moby-Dick’
The whaler Essex was indeed sunk by a whale—and that’s only the beginning’
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-true-life-horror-that-inspired-moby-dick-17576/
‘...By November of 1820, after months of a prosperous voyage and a thousand miles from the nearest land, whaleboats from the Essex had harpooned whales that dragged them out toward the horizon in what the crew called “Nantucket sleigh rides.” Owen Chase, the 23-year-old first mate, had stayed aboard the Essex to make repairs while Pollard went whaling. It was Chase who spotted a very big whale—85 feet in length, he estimated—lying quietly in the distance, its head facing the ship. Then, after two or three spouts, the giant made straight for the Essex, “coming down for us at great celerity,” Chase would recall—at about three knots. The whale smashed head-on into the ship with “such an appalling and tremendous jar, as nearly threw us all on our faces.”
The whale passed underneath the ship and began thrashing in the water. “I could distinctly see him smite his jaws together, as if distracted with rage and fury,” Chase recalled. Then the whale disappeared. The crew was addressing the hole in the ship and getting the pumps working when one man cried out, “Here he is—he is making for us again.” Chase spotted the whale, his head half out of water, bearing down at great speed—this time at six knots, Chase thought. This time it hit the bow directly under the cathead and disappeared for good.
The water rushed into the ship so fast, the only thing the crew could do was lower the boats and try fill them with navigational instruments, bread, water and supplies before the Essex turned over on its side.
Pollard saw his ship in distress from a distance, then returned to see the Essex in ruin. Dumbfounded, he asked, “My God, Mr. Chase, what is the matter?”
“We have been stove by a whale,” his first mate answered....
The headline is not true. I believe it is trying to say that whales alive today go back to 1850, when the novel “Moby Dick” was written. Moby was already very old at the time the novel was written and Ahab harpooned him. Supposing that Moby lived 175 years. That would mean that Moby may have been “alive” as far back as 1725. Whales alive today may be 175 years old. The same age as Moby, when he died. They certainly were not alive in 1725. I have proven that it is false to say that they were alive before Moby Dick.