Whale beachings..

From:  "msswv123" <msswv123@y...> Date:  Sun Jan 16, 2005  10:06 am Subject:  Whale beachings~

ADVERTISEMENT Guys, this is not good...here are a couple stories from the past few weeks and a couple from right before the huge eq and tsunami..I am looking for stories of beachings that I heard from Florida and Georgia this week..if anyone has those please put them up... I am also getting word and hearing stories of really strange bird activity in some parts of the country...I will put up some pics of birds this week flying in large circles in the middle of the downpours...pretty amazing pics...putting them in the photo section...blessings T Whales Beached Along Outer Banks - NC January 15, 2005 Approximately 35 pilot whales beached themselves along the Outer Banks early Saturday morning. They were found from Bodie Island to Oregon Inlet, with the largest concentration of whales near the Coquina Beach area across from the Pea Island Light House. Many of the whales were still alive and tumbling along the surf as volunteers pulled the whales out of the water. The cause for this beaching is unknown. Pilot whales are communal and if one whale gets sick or decides to beach, all of the remaining whales in the group will beach themselves to remain together as a group. Some scientists believe that Navy sonar has a damaging affect on whales and could be the cause of beaching fatalities such as this one. The dead whales will be dissected and studied for cause of death. A Minke whale has also been reported beached at Corolla. It is not known if that beaching is related. http://www.kittyhawkfreepress.com/pilotwhale.html 4 Endangered Whales Found Dead in 6 Weeks The Associated Press BOSTON - Four endangered whales have been found dead in the past six weeks - including two just this week, scientists said. A dead North Atlantic right whale was spotted off the coast of Georgia on Wednesday, a day after one was found off Nantucket Island in Massachusetts. Two were found in late December off Virginia and Nantucket. Tony LaCasse, a spokesman for the New England Aquarium, said biologists hope to perform autopsies on the whales found this week to determine the causes of death. "What we do know is losing that number of animals in such a short period of time puts us generally on a slippery slope to extinction," he said. There are currently between 325 and 350 of the whales known to scientists. That's an improvement from 2000, when the population was counted at about 300. http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/247-01132005-431720.html Before EQ;s in australia and indonesia AUSTRALIA: December 1, 2004 SYDNEY - Scientists and wildlife officials continued to search on Tuesday for what may have caused a series of mass strandings which left 169 whales and dolphins dead on Australian and New Zealand beaches in the past three days. Authorities and volunteers worked through Monday night to save dozens of whales and dolphins after three separate beachings in Australia and New Zealand. By Tuesday, 96 long-finned pilot whales and bottle-nosed dolphins had died after the first beaching on Sunday at King Island, midway between the Australian mainland and the southern island state of Tasmania. Tasmanian wildlife officer Shane Hunniford said another 19 long- finned pilot whales had died in a separate beaching on Monday on Maria Island, 60 km (37 miles) east of the Tasmanian capital Hobart. He said 43 whales had beached themselves on Maria Island but officials had managed to save 24 that had been found alive. REUTERS NEWS SERVICE http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/28363/story.htm Posted: 29 November 2004 1048 hrs HOBART : A second pod of 17 whales has died in a mysterious mass beaching on King Island in the Bass Strait off Australia's south coast following the fatal stranding of 80 whales and dolphins at the weekend. Another 50 pilot whales were also reported to have stranded themselves on Maria Island, some 500 kilometres (300 miles) away to the south east of Australia's island state of Tasmania. Rescuers were on their way to the area to try to drag the mammals back to sea, a spokesman for Tasmania's environment department Warwick Brennan said. He said the success of the rescue operation would depend on the condition of the animals and the depth of the water. Brennan said rescuers had counted the bodies of 55 long-finned pilot whales and 25 dolphins stranded on a remote beach of King Island between Tasmania and the Australian mainland. Local police herded a further 30 dolphins and 12 whales out to sea late on Sunday. It is not known why the mammals are stranding themselves but a team of scientists has gone to King Island to help with postmortems as part of the process of trying to discover a reason. Locals first noticed the stranded animals on Sunday afternoon and immediately pitched in to try to save them. "It is quite grim," Brennan said. "You've got a large number of spectacular animals that are dead on the beach. There are some baby whales as well, so it's not a pleasant site." The weekend stranding was the second in a year involving bottlenose dolphins and pilot whales on Tasmania's west coast. http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/119572/1/ .html

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