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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

This too will be blamed on globull warming. Or George Bush.


21 posted on 02/13/2015 7:55:34 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (True followers of Christ emulate Christ. True followers of Mohammed emulate Mohammed.)
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To: smokingfrog

Good day for BBQ.


22 posted on 02/13/2015 7:56:08 AM PST by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: MinuteGal

Don’t you mean her Canckleness?


23 posted on 02/13/2015 7:56:59 AM PST by Slyfox (To put on the mind of George Washington read ALL of Deuteronomy 28, then read his Farewell Address)
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To: needmorePaine

The wiki cite says pilot whale pods are highly socialized & stick together even when it means disaster.


24 posted on 02/13/2015 7:58:09 AM PST by elcid1970 ("I: am a radicalized infidel.")
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To: elcid1970
The wiki cite says pilot whale pods are highly socialized & stick together even when it means disaster.

Socialism in a nutshell.

25 posted on 02/13/2015 7:59:06 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: smokingfrog

that thing we used to call the tide.....


26 posted on 02/13/2015 7:59:50 AM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: smokingfrog
The way they communicate with each other with these squeaks and squeals, what a fish!

If they die, hope New Zealand learns from the State of Oregon. DON'T USE EXPOLOSIVES!

Watch it. Best 6:41 you'll spend today!

27 posted on 02/13/2015 7:59:51 AM PST by Gamecock (Joel Osteen is a minister of the Gospel like Captain Crunch is a Naval line officer.)
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To: smokingfrog
Those whales are smoking too much seaweed!
28 posted on 02/13/2015 8:00:01 AM PST by capt. norm
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To: Larry Lucido; F15Eagle

To 27.


29 posted on 02/13/2015 8:00:32 AM PST by Gamecock (Joel Osteen is a minister of the Gospel like Captain Crunch is a Naval line officer.)
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To: elcid1970
If the leader suffers an inner ear infection...

He should stay out of the pool for at least a week.

30 posted on 02/13/2015 8:02:36 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: smokingfrog

Global Warming. The oceans have heated up so much they’re nearly boiling. The poor whales were just trying to get out of the scalding water.


31 posted on 02/13/2015 8:07:03 AM PST by Cementjungle
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To: Gamecock
The way they communicate with each other with these squeaks and squeals, what a fish!

Mammal.
32 posted on 02/13/2015 8:10:22 AM PST by needmorePaine
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To: smokingfrog

Arctic Steak ,Yumm


33 posted on 02/13/2015 8:15:15 AM PST by molson209 (Blank)
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To: needmorePaine; Larry Lucido; F15Eagle

**Mammal.**

Whatever. (Attributed to George Costanza)


34 posted on 02/13/2015 8:22:47 AM PST by Gamecock (Joel Osteen is a minister of the Gospel like Captain Crunch is a Naval line officer.)
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To: Slyfox

Arrgg..methinks I be seeing that demonic White Whale Moby Dick.


35 posted on 02/13/2015 9:33:33 AM PST by Zathras
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To: miliantnutcase; al baby; Darksheare; KC_Lion; MeshugeMikey; Jeff Head
How do whales navigate anyway? Could this be caused by some major seismic-volcanic event that might or might not have struck yet?

Sort of reminds me of what happened a week after the Great Kanto Earthquake that devastated Japan in 1923....

... when a bunch of Clemson-class US destroyers ran aground (they probably looked like whales) called the Honda Point Disaster....


36 posted on 02/13/2015 9:33:36 AM PST by GeronL
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To: elcid1970

the same thing happened to the ships in my last post, follow the leader...


37 posted on 02/13/2015 9:34:36 AM PST by GeronL
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To: dfwgator

Brian Williams was inside that thing when it went kaboom he was interviewing some guy in a row boat


38 posted on 02/13/2015 9:39:04 AM PST by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: GeronL

Id suspect that some major seismic-volcanic event or the build up to same could reek havoc on their navigation skills

pets are know to run away in panic in droves before earthquakes


39 posted on 02/13/2015 9:40:15 AM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: GeronL
IT COULD HAVE BEEN THE Tremendous volume...of stocks sales....


40 posted on 02/13/2015 9:50:32 AM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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