Herring Break Wind to Communicate, Study Suggests

National Geographic ^ | November 10, 2003 | James Owen

[martin_fierro]

Herring Break Wind to Communicate, Study Suggests

This was so not in "Finding Nemo."

[Paul Atreides]

Imagine if the military learned to do this in Morse code.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Wrong movie. The one with the breaking wind was "Blaming Nemo"...

[Paul Atreides]

Of course not. If Nemo did it, no one would want to find him.

[Ol' Sox]

This *brappp* was discovered *brapppp* by Spongebob and Patrick *frrppp* at Rock Bottom *phffrrfft!*.

[Interesting Times]

Pull my flipper bump...

[Chad Fairbanks]

Whale flatulence stuns scientists
By Simon Benson
14aug03

IT'S one of the unfortunate consequences of being a mammal - flatulence.

And, more unfortunately for a group of whale researchers, nature took its course right under their noses - literally.

The researchers claim this is the first photograph of a minke whale letting one go in the icy waters of Antarctica. It was taken from the bow of a research vessel.

[Photo caption: Pardon me ... a large bubble behind a whale in the icy
waters of Antartica. - unfortunately, I can't find the photo...]

"We got away from the bow of the ship very quickly ... it does stink," said Nick Gales, a research scientist from the Australian Antarctic Division.

However, the episode did not detract from their mission, which was to collect DNA from whale dung and attach satellite tracking devices in the first research of its kind to track where the creatures go and what and how
much they eat.

Already some incredible stories about whales are emerging.

One pigmy blue whale wearing a satellite tracking tag was found to be returning to a former population off southern Australia which was thought to have been hunted to extinction by Russian whalers.

"Every piece of this research is surprising," said Dr Gales.

"Some is confirming what we thought. We know a lot about humpbacks, but we don't know anything about where they are going.

"Internationally there is a big push ... saying there are now too many whales eating too many fish and so we have to kill them.

"It's important that we determine what impact whales actually have on a fishery such as krill ... and how that fishery interacts with the whale."

[Calpernia]

>>>Herring Break Wind to Communicate

So all this time my husband has been trying to tell me something?

BTW, how was the grant money for this study justified?

[Charles Henrickson]

[Spruce]

Yet another reason for W.C. Fields to not drink water.

[pooh fan]

"You know you're a redneck..." I can't wait to hear what Jeff Foxworthy is going to do with this.

[Tinhatter]

So this is why I always confuse herring with smelt.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

I think there was a herring in my car today.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Or was it Diesel?

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

It was weird. After reading this I could swear it was a herring, but it had a sweater and jeans on.

[stboz]

Alright, who was the farting preacher? BAaarrrrppp!!! "Tahnk you, Jesus!!!"

[PianoMan]

Just damn.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Was it this?

[FlyVet]

Farts should never be hindered. It only makes it worse in the long run.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

Oh, come on, Fairbanks. Do you have a sweater with hunky dark-haired guys on it? What makes you think a herring would wear a sweater covered with fish?