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Over 200 narwhal trapped in Canadian ice (only Global Warming can save them now...)
AFP ^ | November 21, 2008

Posted on 11/21/2008 3:24:18 PM PST by presidio9

At least 200 narwhal whales in Canada's Arctic, trapped by winter ice that is setting in around them and facing starvation or suffocation, must be culled, officials said Friday.

Hunters from the village of Pond Inlet on Baffin Island discovered the animals trapped near Bylot Island, about 17 kilometers (10.5 miles) from Pond Inlet, on November 15, and checked on them periodically.

The local hunters are allowed to harvest only 130 whales each year for food, according to standards set by the federal department of Fisheries and Oceans.

But department spokesman Keith Pelley told AFP: "It's unlikely the animals are going to survive the winter, so the hunters have been given authorization to cull them."

The hunters have been on the ice slaughtering the whales since Thursday and are likely to accomplish their task over the coming days, he said.

Narwhal are found mostly in the Arctic circle, and are renowned for their extraordinarily long tusk, which is actually a twisted incisor tooth that projects from the left side of its upper jaw and can be up to three meters (10 feet) long.

"A couple of weeks ago, when the ice was still moving, there were quite a few narwhal seen out there in the open water," Jayko Allooloo, chairman of the Pond Inlet hunters and trappers organization, told public broadcaster CBC.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Canada; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: globalwarmingtheory; marinebiology; narwhal
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1 posted on 11/21/2008 3:24:18 PM PST by presidio9
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Beam me to Planet Gore !

2 posted on 11/21/2008 3:25:43 PM PST by steelyourfaith
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To: presidio9
Narwhal: It's what's for dinner.

Broght to you by your local Narwhal Council.

3 posted on 11/21/2008 3:26:53 PM PST by SIDENET (Hubba Hubba...)
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To: steelyourfaith
algore is on the job


4 posted on 11/21/2008 3:27:44 PM PST by Joiseydude (Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel,)
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To: presidio9

Boy, this has got to roil the enviro-nazis! Not only does it fly in the face of all the predictions of disappearing ice, but now it turns out that all the purported warming was the least of these whales’ problems. I thought warming was supposed to be the end of the world.

But wait, maybe the ice that trapped the whales actually IS some strange paradoxical result of the rampant AGW! How will Algore spin this?

I tried to post this, but wasn’t allowed, got this message:
“smh.com.au cannot be posted to FR due to copyright complaint.”


5 posted on 11/21/2008 3:29:17 PM PST by mtrott
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To: presidio9

Bump. LMAO!!


6 posted on 11/21/2008 3:30:46 PM PST by Past Your Eyes (All points of view tolerated...as long as they agree with mine.)
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To: SIDENET

Tastes like chicken


7 posted on 11/21/2008 3:32:42 PM PST by PeteB570 (NRA - Life member and Black Rifle owner)
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To: Joiseydude

Or you could just go with the sharks with frikin laser beams...

8 posted on 11/21/2008 3:34:36 PM PST by presidio9 (I don't want to live in a world where Mike Mussina is a Hall of Famer.)
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"Narwahls......are renowned for their extraordinarily long tusk, which is actually a twisted incisor tooth that projects from the left side of its upper jaw and can be up to three meters (10 feet) long.

Can't they just peck their way out? What's that tusk for, anyway? Fish-Ka-Bob?

9 posted on 11/21/2008 3:40:01 PM PST by cookcounty ("A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not why the ship is built." ---Governor Sarah Palin)
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To: cookcounty

Fish Ka-bob..... LOL

Another wet keyboard. I think I need to install a splash guard.


10 posted on 11/21/2008 3:48:00 PM PST by Dutch Boy
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To: presidio9
A few years back, a Russian ice breaker came to the rescue of a couple of whales in a similar predicament. Hopefully, these whales will be used for food, etc.
11 posted on 11/21/2008 3:51:58 PM PST by nralife (Sarah doesn't know it's a damn show! She thinks it's a damn fight!)
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To: mtrott

Gee! Why didn’t they send in the icebreakers to make a safe path for the whales?


12 posted on 11/21/2008 3:57:03 PM PST by Parmy
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To: presidio9

In my best Fred Schneider voice ...

“There goes the Narwhals!”


13 posted on 11/21/2008 4:56:28 PM PST by SoCal_Republican
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To: presidio9

Nature uses this to take care of the endangered polar bears.

let them eat whale meat.


14 posted on 11/21/2008 4:57:39 PM PST by bestintxas (It's great in Texas)
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Not sure if you wrote in jest, but there’s much truth in it.


15 posted on 11/21/2008 5:10:55 PM PST by chiller (I hope he comes to his senses, but fear stealth socialist indoctrination and economics)
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It’s the tough love of the environmental movement.

when i was in CA, I had indoctrination showing me what the types of endangered desert tortoises, foxes and rats.

You were not to bother any under penalty.

the irony is that one day i saw an endangered desert fox which caught an endangered rat and i wondered what should which endangered animal to save, the hungry fox or the soon to be eaten rat.

nature takes care of things, wihtout our interference


16 posted on 11/21/2008 5:16:41 PM PST by bestintxas (It's great in Texas)
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To: presidio9
Sounds like there is going to be a whale of a special at Long John Silvers, Captain "D's", & Red Lobster.
17 posted on 11/21/2008 5:21:35 PM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: presidio9

Awww, I wish I could find a picture of leelu to post :)


18 posted on 11/21/2008 5:22:26 PM PST by Trillian
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All those narwahls are wishing for some global warming right about now.....

Someone should do a cartoon of narwahls about to be slaughtered on the ice, crying “Al Gore, how about some of that global warming?”


19 posted on 11/21/2008 5:25:42 PM PST by Enchante (Thanks, Mediascum, you "elected" your candidate and now the country will pay....)
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To: bestintxas

Reminds me of a story I read a day or so ago about some thought-to-be-extinct tiny primate in someplace like New Zealand. So they tagged some to study and the article goes on a bit and then “the female was eaten by a hawk”. LOL


20 posted on 11/21/2008 5:54:09 PM PST by visualops (portraits.artlife.us or visit my freeper page)
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