nytimes.com:
On the afternoon of Sept. 25, 2002, a group of marine biologists vacationing on Isla San Jose, in Baja California Sur, Mexico, came upon a couple of whales stranded along the beach. A quick assessment indicated that they had died quite recently. The scientists radioed a passing vessel and sent a message to a colleague at a nearby marine-mammal laboratory, who came to the beach to do an examination.
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Bogus Huffpost! I dont want to register with nytimes just to read an article.
That's bizarre, I didn't have to register (the article just came up).
Me, too.
Great article. Thanks for the link.
Whales are great, I've seen them at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay in Winter. Good article.
"...whales sent into suicidal dashes toward the ocean’s surface to escape the madness-inducing echo chamber that we humans have made of their sound-sensitive habitat. But since the Canary Islands stranding in 2002, similar necropsy results have turned up with a number of beached whales, and the deleterious effects of sonar and other human-generated sounds on ocean ecosystems have been firmly established."
The military does need to consider the proximity of whales, they obviously have the technology to do so.
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First Posted: 07-12-09 02:15 PM | Updated: 07-12-09 03:04 PM