80 Pilot Whales stranded on NZ beach more washing ashore

Good Job getting this posted, Blessings.

all the wildlife, humans and planet struggling so, are they warning us? are "THEY" killing them? BOTH?

probably military playing with sonar in the area.

To be fair this beach has had whales beach themselves on it before, but they still don't know what causes it. It's sad they try to help each other and end up dying :(

Thanks too!

Thanks for the !

The penguins east coast of South America, sea turtles west coast of south America, about month ago, cork screw seals in European waters, same thing? and of course billions? or close, of fish dead globally Sad. Sigh....

Last Edited by Anakainosis on 09/22/2010 11:25 AM

Doubt it. More like Dads Army in NZ..

can't remember where I read it, but a scientist did studies on this phenomenon, and he said that the whales are starving. Said that the whales are nutritionally depleted, underweight, and literally starving.

There is not enough plankton or whatever they eat to sustain them. He thinks that is the reason for all the beachings.

If that's true it doesn't bode well for the rest of the ocean sea life either

Oceans, waterways, dying. :(

Tragic. These events will only increase in frequency and scope.

They are just tanning, back to work.

I think there are three threads today already about species in the world's oceans dying. I'm agreement with an early statement...this is only the beginning. Very sad.

This is horrible news :(

I hope they can get some of them back in the water :(

So many dead already though

Me too!

humanities greed

yes it's sad but shit happens... even for whales...

CALM DOWN PEOPLE

EVERYBODY JUST CHILL OUT

:freeeze3:

or us

The pilots need to fire their navigator...

from the link...
"A pod of 101 pilot whales stranded on the same beach in 2007.

New Zealand has one of the world's highest rates of whale strandings, mainly during their migrations to and from Antarctic waters, one of which begins around September.

Since 1840, the Department of Conservation has recorded more than 5,000 strandings of whales and dolphins around the New Zealand coast. Scientists have not been able to determine why whales become stranded"


What the hell is wrong with these scientists? Why don't we ever get to see the necropsy reports when these things happen?

Why does New Zealand, have the world's highest rates of whale strandings?

What's going on in New Zealand to cause this? Navy Sonar, change in ocean temperatures & currents, dead zone, toxins, chemicals, pollutions? Why can't these scientists figure this out?

pilot whales are toothed whales I'm pretty sure they're in the dolphin family,much like orcas just a tad smaller.They're not filter feeders.They don't have baleen like humpbacks,mink,blues etc.

That's really sad. Hate to see that.

And since whales use the Earth's magnetic field to assist navigation i really think the cause is a disturbance in that field. Most likely created by us, by accident or otherwise.

We really know very little about our ecosystem and lots of times we cause the disturbance by the way we research it.

I don't think these whales stranded because they were starving but one thing is correct... we are destroying the ecosystem incl. the food-chain.

A little unrelated but maybe interesting nonetheless:

The other day i saw a documentary on Discovery where they were looking for techniques to counter global warming. In this documentary specifically they tried pumping cold water from deep sea to the surface to make it cooler.

Their test succeeded but they managed to disturb the food-chain in about 24 hours. Suddenly it attracted schools of fish eating away all the plankton. This caused some concern but they said immediately they will push through with the research implementing it on a large scale and see what happens.

Also another documentary about the Asian carp which was implemented to counter a dominant fish which was (according to us) an imbalance. They ordered some Asian carps and released them in some lake in America and within a couple of years they multiplied exponentially and ate away the complete food-chain. When those lakes were empty and there was a flood which connected rivers and lakes at a point they crossed over and started destroying those lakes and rivers.
This is now really causing a concern in the fishing-industry because all types of fish are simply gone and will never return.

Sorry, that was a bit off topic but those were just a few examples where we think we can help nature out but instead are destroying it. And i think these stranded whales are a symptom of that, probably caused by us.

Last Edited by Psych-old on 09/22/2010 12:13 PM

big quake coming this weekend . for sure

Maybe New Zealand got in their way?

Birds, whales, and many other creatures dependent on plankton and Oxygen...



Banned pesticides should not be dumped into the ocean-it compromises the whole ecosystem and threatens any living organisms: human, or mammal, even insects cannot survive such intensity of pesticides....bigger lifeforms are prone to go much faster


Also the whales are being tormented by new sonars...and some heavy attacks-

Geomagnetics are also shifting-

The waters are losing Oxygen...from Core Xit...and the hydrogen sulfides being released...these things PULL oxygen out of the waters and the air...sulfuric acid will be left with enough of this-the waters being bittered refers to sulfur...and this depleted oxygen-leading to many harmful gases even of decomposition-

Bitter waters-cannot sustain life.

Take care

maybe it has something to do with the new fault line and the 700 earthquakes in Christchurch ?
[link to fromtheold.com]

Hot water.