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Caught on film for the first time: One of the world’s rarest whales
Washington Post ^
| March 7, 2017
| Sarah Kaplan
Posted on 03/07/2017 6:21:41 AM PST by C19fan
Natacha Aguilar de Soto has studied beaked whales for 15 years. She has spent dozens of months at sea, floating above the deepest parts of the ocean, straining her eyes and ears to detect whatever might be moving in the fathoms below.
She rarely finds anything. Beaked whales a family of 22 cetacean species characterized by dolphinlike noses and missile-shaped bodies are some of the most elusive animals on Earth. They dive deeper and longer than any other marine mammal and spend an estimated 92 percent of their lives far beneath the ocean surface. One species, the True's beaked whale, is so rare that only a handful of people have ever seen it alive.
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TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: cryptobiology; godsgravesglyphs; whales
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Cool! Beaked whales are very hard to find because they live in the middle of the ocean and dive deep to get their food. I believe some of them grow to 50 feet.
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posted on
03/07/2017 6:21:41 AM PST
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
They taste good too!
(just kidding)
To: C19fan
Probably conservatives. Just wanna be left the hell alone.
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posted on
03/07/2017 6:26:58 AM PST
by
Delta 21
(The minority demands NOTHING !)
To: C19fan; SaveFerris; PROCON; FredZarguna; mylife; Lil Flower; Corky Ramirez; CopperTop; ...
True's beaked whale What a fish!
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posted on
03/07/2017 6:29:46 AM PST
by
Gamecock
(Twitter: What a real democracy looks like.)
To: C19fan
Very cool:
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posted on
03/07/2017 6:31:37 AM PST
by
freedumb2003
(Not tired of winning yet!)
To: C19fan
A closer look at one that was beached:
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posted on
03/07/2017 6:33:10 AM PST
by
The Sons of Liberty
(Send 0bama and the Clintons to a Black Site IMMEDIATELY for rendition on charges of TREASON!)
To: C19fan
"We dont know how large the populations of True's beaked whale or any other species are, said Aguilar de Soto. The populations could decline and we would never know." Translation: " We won't even know when to apply for grants to study and save them! How can we justify our existence!?!"
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posted on
03/07/2017 6:36:25 AM PST
by
nevergore
To: Delta 21
No, the Washington Post would not write such; the head looks like a dolphin
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posted on
03/07/2017 6:37:36 AM PST
by
Jolla
To: C19fan
"They dive deeper and longer than any other marine mammal and spend an estimated 92 percent of their lives far beneath the ocean surface. "
They've got an app for that!
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posted on
03/07/2017 6:37:36 AM PST
by
PLMerite
To: C19fan
They dive deeper and longer than any other marine mammal and spend an estimated 92 percent of their lives far beneath the ocean surface. One species, the True's beaked whale, is so rare that only a handful of people have ever seen it alive.They have all the info on a mammal that nobody's ever really seen? How is that?
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posted on
03/07/2017 6:39:03 AM PST
by
raybbr
(That progressive bumper sticker on your car might just as well say, "Yes, I'm THAT stupid!")
To: Gamecock
You forgot the /s
It is not a fish
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posted on
03/07/2017 6:39:05 AM PST
by
Jolla
To: raybbr
Most of the information is from carcasses that come ashore and the rare times some of these animals have been tagged.
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posted on
03/07/2017 6:42:41 AM PST
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C19fan
To: C19fan
Personally I think Narwhals are cooler looking.
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posted on
03/07/2017 6:42:49 AM PST
by
xp38
To: C19fan
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posted on
03/07/2017 6:48:57 AM PST
by
Faith65
(Isaiah 40:31)
To: raybbr
Whales get stranded as well as getting caught in fishing nets. Plenty of examples of the various species of beaked whales have been examined up close.
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posted on
03/07/2017 6:50:00 AM PST
by
jjotto
("Ya could look it up!")
To: jjotto
Whales get stranded as well as getting caught in fishing nets. Plenty of examples of the various species of beaked whales have been examined up close.Catching a fish in a net doesn't tell you how long they stay under and how deep they can dive.
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posted on
03/07/2017 6:52:37 AM PST
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raybbr
(That progressive bumper sticker on your car might just as well say, "Yes, I'm THAT stupid!")
To: C19fan
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posted on
03/07/2017 6:55:20 AM PST
by
manna
To: raybbr
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posted on
03/07/2017 6:56:24 AM PST
by
jjotto
("Ya could look it up!")
To: raybbr
The contents of the stomach can tell you what the animal eats. That indicates how deep the animal has to dive to get its food. For example, when people found beeks of Giant Squids in the stomach of Sperm Whales that indicated the whale had to be a deep diver to get down to the depth where the Giant Squid lives.
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posted on
03/07/2017 6:56:30 AM PST
by
C19fan
To: raybbr
They examine their black box - all kinds of info there.
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03/07/2017 6:58:35 AM PST
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choirboy
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