Washed ashore: Students surround the body of the whale, which has a gash on its back more than eight feet long after being struck by a passing ship


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1222158/Pictured-Giant-blue-whale-washed-California-beach-struck-killed-passing-ship.html

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"This the tragic sight of the largest mammal in the world - a majestic blue whale - washed ashore after being struck and killed by a passing ship. The 70-foot female was found on the Northern California coast on Monday night with two gashes on her back - one that was eight feet long. The whale had two gashes on its back - at least one of which was deep enough to cut through the blubber down to the vertebral column, Holmes said. One gash was eight feet long."

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10/22/2009 9:07:58 AM

...i love blue whales

10/22/2009 9:10:55 AM

Today we are all blue whales.

10/22/2009 9:12:31 AM

Easily the most intriguing animals in the world, whales. Scientists still cannot decode their underwater communication.

10/22/2009 9:12:52 AM

THAT SHIP SHOULD BE KILLED!!

10/22/2009 9:13:55 AM

Today we are all blue whales.

10/22/2009 9:16:00 AM

its so pretty

10/22/2009 9:16:06 AM

DEATH TO ALL SHIPS

TODAY WE ARE ALL BLUE WHALES

10/22/2009 9:16:23 AM

10/22/2009 9:17:17 AM

Poor thing. Humans suck.

10/22/2009 9:18:24 AM

It's not often that you get to see one in true scale like that. Shame such a photograph can only exist in a situation like this one.

Also,

10/22/2009 9:18:46 AM

We need to hurry up and get that thing on ice. Do you know how much those crazy Japs will PAY for that?!

10/22/2009 9:18:49 AM

it looks like it's wearing denim

10/22/2009 9:58:44 AM

wow...beautiful. so sad

10/22/2009 10:00:25 AM

MOVE WHALE

GET OUT THE WAY

GET OUT THE WAY WHALE

GET OUT THE WAY

10/22/2009 10:02:30 AM

Thats cool as shit

a shame about the circumstances, but a cool picture

I never knew they were actually blue

10/22/2009 10:13:32 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBgThvB_IDQ

10/22/2009 10:33:37 AM

We need to hurry up and get that thing on ice. Do you know how much those crazy Japs will PAY for that?!

10/22/2009 10:34:27 AM

^^
It's raining whale
Hallelujah it's raining whale

10/22/2009 10:39:26 AM

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"Easily the most intriguing animals in the world, whales. Scientists still cannot decode their underwater communication."

excuse me, i think you've got some 3rd grade science class on your face

10/22/2009 2:23:28 PM

That whale is freaking huge

10/22/2009 2:25:05 PM

maybe those people are just really small

10/22/2009 2:26:02 PM

oh look, it's Ernie being completely unfunny and heartless

go ahead and give me your predictable response, buddy

I'll be waiting

10/22/2009 2:26:37 PM

thats a big ass slug

I'm AstralAdvent and i approved this message.

10/22/2009 2:27:01 PM

so thats really a beta fish?

10/22/2009 2:27:10 PM

here i am thinking this thread awas about ambrosia

10/22/2009 2:27:28 PM

hey buddy, she's my punching bag

find another mark

10/22/2009 2:28:47 PM

this is tragic

but the only way to make something good of this is to skew it on the bar-b

[Edited on October 22, 2009 at 2:29 PM. Reason : .]

10/22/2009 2:29:26 PM

well damn

i thought this thread was about thumper

10/22/2009 2:30:26 PM

^^^ i'll step off your girl, b

10/22/2009 2:30:37 PM

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"Humpback Whale Calls Are Love Songs, Biologist Suggests Even among whales, it seems, the best singers get the girls. Joshua Smith, a doctoral student at the University of Queensland in St. Lucia, Australia, has spent three migration seasons collecting the songs of humpback whales. It's during this time that male humpbacks emit vocalizations that sound, at least to human ears, like barks, chirps, and moans. "Singers are joining females with calves more often and singing for a much longer duration with them than with any other group," Smith said. Some theories have suggested that male humpbacks, like insects and birds, could be using their songs to either warn off other males or to attract females. But Smith now thinks it's more likely that the songs are used as a courtship display directed at females, who may also size up males based on their singing ability. "The way they structure their songs, perhaps using elements like higher or lower frequencies and how they do that, could reflect attributes of that male, such as his fitness or his age," Smith said. Through his research, Smith hopes to decode the relationship between the songs and the social interactions between the singing males and other whales."

We have not figured it out yet. Unless of course, you have Fermat? I was being literal when I said decode their communication, we have barely scratched the surface.

[Edited on October 22, 2009 at 2:38 PM. Reason : -]

10/22/2009 2:35:05 PM

Hey RD

Having a good day?

When does Mom get home?

10/22/2009 2:35:54 PM

had no idea that was coming

again

not funny

and there was clearly nothing else you were trying to do but be funny

since you have no heart, you certainly weren't trying to be genuine

keep on living your hateful life

10/22/2009 2:37:22 PM

its a little bit funny

I'm AstralAdvent and i approved this message.

[Edited on October 22, 2009 at 2:38 PM. Reason : your responses that is.]

10/22/2009 2:37:54 PM

dude, i would live with my mom for free if i could. bitch would cook AND do my laundry.

10/22/2009 2:38:50 PM

Maybe you can move in with RD and his mom

RD, can the basement accommodate two?

10/22/2009 2:41:54 PM

eh, that won't work. i have baggage. namely, my husband and 3 (maybe 4) cats.

10/22/2009 2:43:19 PM

maybe YOUR family would stick you in the basement

10/22/2009 2:44:56 PM

maybe 4 lol

10/22/2009 2:45:08 PM

hahaha

i'm still undecided on the final resting place of that cute little cuddly furball in the other thread

10/22/2009 2:48:14 PM

final resting place?

are you going to kill him?

10/22/2009 2:49:02 PM

i would never kill such a cute and cuddly furball!

10/22/2009 2:55:22 PM

I was watching A&E Biography one time and they were talking about some dude who had a sofa made of leather from a whale's penis. Just a little FYI in case anybody lives in CA and has access to this whale.

10/22/2009 2:58:53 PM

they should at least put the skeleton in a museum. ery sad though, truly a magnificent animal

10/22/2009 4:49:57 PM

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"We have not figured it out yet. Unless of course, you have Fermat? I was being literal when I said decode their communication, we have barely scratched the surface."

ok now tell us about the posters you got to draw where you had a bee and Einstein with a question mark over his head and a blurb about "Did you know?? Science cant figure out how BEES FLY!!!"

or maybe show us a mcgruff puppet you found in the back of the gym but tell people the police gave it to you for turning in a SPY

[Edited on October 22, 2009 at 5:05 PM. Reason : You get a star]

10/22/2009 5:04:45 PM

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"it looks like it's wearing denim"

10/22/2009 5:21:58 PM

that thing is going to stink

10/22/2009 5:35:45 PM

10/22/2009 7:37:04 PM

There was an 8 foot gash. It was 8 feet long.

10/22/2009 7:39:12 PM

set em up...

10/22/2009 7:41:50 PM