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Posted by jennifer, November 24th, 2008 - under News.
Tags: Whales
On Saturday I reported that 200 whales are trapped in ice in the Canadian Arctic.
Today I received photographs of one of the groups of Narwhal trapped in one of the 11 open holes.
The photographs were taken by Brian Koonoo.
I’m not a squemish bloke by any means but isn’t nature cruel at times?
This would have to be the whale equivalent of shooting fish in a barrel.
Can’t blame “global warming” for this.
This is what happens to you when you believe in Al Gore. Who wants to bet, the whales were reading about the ice free Arctic in their NYTimes, when they set out on their fall adventure.
^_^
Can Jabba please have a slice as well?
Nice dead and dying whale porn. Bet there’s a few regulars who are saving these piccies to their hard drive. You know who you are.
@ Patrick B 12:08
“Nice dead and dying whale porn. Bet there’s a few regulars who are saving these piccies to their hard drive. You know who you are.”
Jabba would prefer ecomentalists or christians in the amphitheatre, but hey, you can’t be too fussy these days…
This is no more cruel than harvesting corn. The helpless stalks of corn, unable to flee, being mercilessly slaughtered by the combine. I’m sorry {choke}… I can’t continue.
just filing this here
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2008/11/24/pond-narhwal.html#articlecomments
UPDATE: The number of narwhals could be 4 times higher than previously thought.
” It’s not a pretty sight” , said one wildlife official.
Open sea is 50 km away , and no icebreaker in sight.
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The whales seemed to trapped quite a long time since they have very little blubber.
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=967a7bcf-53f6-4963-99af-4be36121ef0b
Dunno how this could possibly happen since the Goreacle and his proselytizers have pronounced the Arctic Ocean ice-free. Anyway the polar bears are happy. Dinner is served.
@ Ann Novek 6:18 pm
“The whales seemed to trapped quite a long time since they have very little blubber.”
Jabba is quite partial to a slab of lean whale steak, medium rare preferred.
Following on from Ann’s comment. Brian Koonoo has written to me explaining , “there were 23 open holes in total, not 11 as previously thought”.
” “It’s just a misfortune of nature.” Mr. Richards said one hunter told him they had pulled 11 dead baby narwhals out of the air holes. The whales that have been harvested don’t have much fat, an early sign of starvation.
Joseph Maktar of the Pond Inlet Hunters and Trappers Association said something like this happened once before.
“Based on our hunters’ knowledge there were trapped whales in 1943. And [the community] harvested them until they were all gone,” he said.
Mr. Maktar said that during the summer and fall narwhal are hunted from boats. But usually by the end of September, the whales have migrated out of Eclipse Sound and are far beyond the reach of local hunters.
“We can blame it on global warming,” he said of the current situation.
Mr. Maktar said the ice pan formed late this year, toward the end of October, and the whales stayed in Eclipse Sound too long. When the ice formed, it came in fast and suddenly closed off all exits, trapping the whales.”
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081126.wwhales26/BNStory/National