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Nearly 200 whales stuck on New Zealand beach
click2houston ^
| 2-13-15
| Jethro Mullen
Posted on 02/13/2015 7:39:41 AM PST by smokingfrog
Conservationists are racing to try to save more than 170 whales stranded on a remote beach on New Zealand's South Island.
Twenty-four of the 198 pilot whales stuck on the beach have already died, New Zealand's Department of Conservation said Friday.
The department's staff, helped by 140 volunteers, were planning to try to refloat the giant mammals as the tide rose Friday evening, it said.
The whales are stuck on Farewell Spit, a thin claw of land that reaches out into the sea from the northern tip of the South Island.
The spit forms the top of Golden Bay, which is known as a stranding hotspot because of its protruding coastline, gently sloping beaches and system of currents.
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TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: goldenbay
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To: smokingfrog
The Michele Moore look-alike convention day at the beach?
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posted on
02/13/2015 7:41:07 AM PST
by
556x45
To: smokingfrog
Cape Farewell, How terribly Ironic
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posted on
02/13/2015 7:41:32 AM PST
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: MeshugeMikey
Cape Farewell, How terribly Ironic
So is the fact that they are pilot whales.
To: needmorePaine
To: needmorePaine
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posted on
02/13/2015 7:43:21 AM PST
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: MeshugeMikey
one word:
Democrats
I’m sure one of those psychos would try and tie this to globull warming.
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02/13/2015 7:44:46 AM PST
by
mothball
To: needmorePaine
Calling the “Bob Barker”, we need help!
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02/13/2015 7:45:32 AM PST
by
GOYAKLA
(Leftist women are such a damned embarrassment...)
To: MeshugeMikey
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posted on
02/13/2015 7:45:53 AM PST
by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: smokingfrog
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posted on
02/13/2015 7:46:26 AM PST
by
dfwgator
To: mothball
ahahaa Global Climate Change....Global Climate Change...
“warming.... cooling s’all the same”
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posted on
02/13/2015 7:46:39 AM PST
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: smokingfrog; CAluvdubya
Here is a whale on a beach in a moo-moo with canckles.
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posted on
02/13/2015 7:46:57 AM PST
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Slyfox
(To put on the mind of George Washington read ALL of Deuteronomy 28, then read his Farewell Address)
To: gorush
A Racist Movie...
insufficient "participation" by "Black" people...
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posted on
02/13/2015 7:50:36 AM PST
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MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: Slyfox
OMG...first time I’ve seen this picture. Keep it close by....
To: needmorePaine
Heard that they are called pilot whales because the entire pod follows a leader, or pilot. If the leader suffers an inner ear infection that throws his sense of direction off, then he runs aground & the others mindlessly follow.
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posted on
02/13/2015 7:52:57 AM PST
by
elcid1970
("I: am a radicalized infidel.")
To: mothball
“I’m sure one of those psychos would try and tie this to globull warming.”
Last time I read about one of these beaching it was blamed on military sonar.
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02/13/2015 7:53:06 AM PST
by
CrazyIvan
(I lost my phased plasma rifle in a tragic hovercraft accident.)
To: smokingfrog
Do they have health insurance????
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posted on
02/13/2015 7:53:34 AM PST
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PGR88
To: MeshugeMikey
They obviously got confused from the rising sea levels.
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posted on
02/13/2015 7:53:39 AM PST
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: elcid1970
Heard that they are called pilot whales because the entire pod follows a leader, or pilot. If the leader suffers an inner ear infection that throws his sense of direction off, then he runs aground & the others mindlessly follow.
Interesting. Get those pilot whales some ear tubes.
To: Slyfox; flaglady47; pax_et_bonum; Maine Mariner; mickie; seenenuf; Bob Ireland
Shamu on you for posting that photo of Her Whaleness !
Leni
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