[mattdono]

Hmmm...come to think of it, I have seen Ted Kennedy lately. [raise left eyebrow]

[PoorMuttly]

Uh-oh shaggy.....time to change your frequency

[YouPosting2Me]

"Whale at Large in the Ocean"

Where else would it be?

[hushpad]

Wasn't this a Star Trek movie?

[RightWhale]

Not me. I prefer a 60 cycle hum.

[geopyg]

Some ocean Discovery channel type show briefly talked about the sound monitoring system and the guy was playing tapes of whales, etc.

He played one that was distinctly different than the other ones - sounded almost electrical or "alien" like - much weirder than the others. He said we have NO idea what this is - and said it comes from some remote area (Middle of the Indian Ocean?).

[Jonah Hex]

A lone whale, singing tenor... arrrrr.

[StoneColdGOP]

[Mr. Jeeves]

It's a Russian submarine disguised with a foam rubber whale suit. ;)

[Sir Gawain]

Who cares?

[lilylangtree]

Gracie or George?

[Old Lady]

This is a wonderful but sad story. Poor whale. Maybe he is swimming the world, singing for his 52 hertz whale-woman. I hope he finds her.

[jwalburg]

HOWARD DEAN

[Ruth A.]

"The Incredible Mr. Limpit," perhaps. Good Don Knotts family film.

[AnnaZ]

Do they mean Bloop?

[Lorianne]

Individualists unite!

[AxelPaulsenJr]

bttt

[ForGod'sSake]

Whale Farts
Posted by Scott Manning on August 27, 2003 | Comments (16)

For the first time, scientists have both witnessed and photographed a whale gas bubble, suggesting that flatulence is just as common for ocean mammals as it is for humans and many other terrestrial animals.

The picture is best described by Nick Gales, principal research scientist in the Applied Marine Mammal Ecology Group of the Australian Antarctic Division in Tasmania. Gales was leading an expedition of the Charolotte Pass between Marguerite Bay and Palmer Station, Antarctica, when the ship's captain, Joe Borkowski III, took the photo.

"The picture is of an Antarctic minke whale taken from the bow of a ship," Gales explained. "The white bits in the photo are pieces of ice-floe, the stream of pinky color behind the whale is a fecal plume — a.k.a. "poo" — the large circle in the water is indeed the physical eruption of the whale's flatulence."

[balk]

great headline!

[Darksheare]

Hillay has been somewhat quiet lately.
And she is a strange voiced mammal(Barely mammal).
Janet Reno is also strange voiced, and Madelaine Albright is also missing..
A whole pod of them?

[dfwgator]

Reminds me of the Far Side cartoon with the whale singing "Louie, Louie" into the researcher's microphone.