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Large Sea Creatures
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: October 28, 2013, 11:13 pm
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Re: Large Sea Creatures
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: September 27, 2014, 7:09 pm
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Take a look at the footage of Iceland's legendary lake monster,
which was confirmed as real by Icelandic panel
By Matt Eliason
Lagarfljótsormur, a mysterious Icelandic lake monster similar to
the Loch Ness monster, was confirmed as "real" by an Icelandic
panel after evidence of the creature was seen in a grainy video
posted to the internet.
A 13-member panel determined by a majority vote that the grainy
footage released in 2012 depicts Lagarfljótsormur the legendary
lake monster first reported in 1345. This footage takes place in
a river in East Iceland.
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Re: Large Sea Creatures
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Date: January 3, 2015, 3:50 pm
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Was Moby Dick based on a Real Story?
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The inspiration for Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby Dick was
based on a real albino sperm whale called Mocha Dick. During the
growth of the whaling industry in the Americas in the mid 1800s,
Mocha Dick gained a reputation of being a one of the most feared
whales in the ocean. Mocha Dick was reported to be docile if
left alone, even swimming along ships.
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However, when provoked, the 70 foot (21.336 m) whale would
become aggressive and attack ships with his body. During the 28
years that Mocha Dick hunted, he reportedly attacked 100 ships,
20 of which were completely destroyed.
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Mocha was eventually killed by whalers in 1838 near the Chilean
island Mocha after he came to the rescue of a female whale whose
calf was killed by the whalers.
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Whalers liked the "easy" kill of the small offspring of females.
How "noble" of them. But profits are profits, RIGHT!!? The EROEI
of killing a small whale is HIGHER than that of killing a large,
aggressive one, so IT's OKAY, RGHT!!?
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The humans are at it again; must try to save the female. She is
traumatized by the death of her calf and won't leave. That will
enable these murderers to kill her too.
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Agelbert NOTE: More evidence of aggression used more for defense
than predation in nature (unless you are a GREEDY Homo SAP
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Notice how a friendly, ship accompanying, compassionate and
noble whale that goes out of its way to save a female, something
a conscience free predator is not supposed to do according to
the "apex predator evolutionary advantage", modern "science"
interpretation, gets killed by humans with no conscience.
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WE are the evolutionary dead end, NOT the whales we stupidly
killed.
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Another Agelbert NOTE: As to the double talking morons who will
claim that Mocha Dick's behavior was NOT "touchy feely" but was
actually evidence of an evolutionary advantage of a predator
because it "perpetuated the species" ( his sacrificial death
saved the female to breed another day
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I just
want to say that is one of the most logic free exercises
futility I have ever heard (See what Lions DO to offspring that
aren't theirs. This was an act of altruism and compassion, not
evolutionary advantage instinct. Go ahead, claim that the
female had Mocha Dick's offspring! LOL! ). It's the FEMALE
sperm whales that hang around and pine when a calf or a large
male gets killed, NOT the males (Google it!).
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But, of
course, the champions of conscience free predation will always
come up with some other threadbare piece of erudite BALONEY.
Logic isn't their thing; defense of murder, mayhem and biosphere
degradation for profit is.
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More about whales:
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•As of 2014, an albino humpback whale named Migaloo is being
studied by scientist. Migaloo, which means "White Fella" in
Aboriginal Australian language, was first spotted in 1991 off
the Queensland coast in Australia.
•Sperm whales are the most aggressive whale species and have
been known to attack whaling ships and battle giant squids.
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•An extinct species of sperm whale which lived approximately 12
million years ago, the Leviathan melvillei, was named after
Herman Melville.
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Re: Large Sea Creatures
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Date: January 13, 2015, 12:31 am
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Science now PROVES that whales, top of the food chain predators,
are INSTRUMENTAL in ensuring the survival and perpetuation of
the species they feed upon!
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They help trophic
levels BENEATH them!
In addition, whale behavior aids the oceans in absorbing CO2!
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Another reality check from the biosphere for those who see
everything in terms of "carrying capacity". ;D
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> Whales sustain the entire living system of the ocean.
>
> Indeed, every living species on this planet has a role in
keeping it alive.
>
> Researchers scratched their heads when the fish and krill
population went down as the whale population was massively
diminished because of human whale hunting.
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They
assumed there would be MORE fish with the main predator out of
the picture.
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Re: Large Sea Creatures
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: January 27, 2015, 12:17 am
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Feast your eyes on the strangest bunch of aquatic life forms you
have ever seen. Some of them cannot even be classified. Most of
the deep dwells are bioluminescent. And get this: It is
estimated that there are more creatures using LIGHT to
communicate, mate, hunt for prey, warn, etc. in the earth's
oceans than all the other non-ocean creatures (like us) that use
sound to communicate! :o
Unfortunately, Homo SAPS have done an excellent job of damaging
the ocean bottom and bringing many species to near or total
extinction. :( >:(
So it goes. :P
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Re: Large Sea Creatures
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: January 12, 2016, 5:57 pm
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[center]Why do whales breach? ???[/center]
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> [I]Melissa Breyer (@MelissaBreyer)
> Science / Reader's Photos[/i]
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> Self-taught photographer E Flen has certainly learned a thing
or two about taking photos ... just look at this beauty! Shot
during a whale-watching trip in San Francisco, this photo
catches a majestic humpback whale mid-breach. Which begs the
questions, why do whales do that in the first place?
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> As it turns out, scientists aren't exactly sure
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but they
have some ideas. Probably the most popular theory is that they
do it to help remove parasites like barnacles from their bodies
– life in the sea is hard when you don't have hands to brush
things off of your skin. Other theories suggest it's a way to
scratch an itch or a way to communicate. And if none of those
resonate with you, there's always the last one: They're just
having fun.
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Re: Large Sea Creatures
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: August 23, 2016, 8:39 pm
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[center]WATCH: Humpback Whales Nearly Crush Kayakers
:o[/center]
August 19, 2016 by John Konrad
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Filmed in the vicinity of the Penn Islands of British Columbia,
these three kayakers are lucky to have gotten such a close look.
In fact, if they were any closer they might not have lived to
tell their tale.
“Humpbacks are marine mammals and you need to stay back 100M. As
you can see in this Video they can close the distance very fast
and they are unpredictable. Remember ‘See a Blow Go Slow’” – via
UnofficialNetworks
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Watch: Spectacular Drone Footage of Gray Whale Superpod[/center]
March 11, 2015 by Mike Schuler
Check out this drone footage showing a gray whale superpod
spotted near Catalina Island, California. The video was captured
during a 8-hour whale watching trip in late January. The charter
company says that there were 45+ gray whale sightings that day,
including a superpod of 15+ and another of 12+. Now that’s
getting your money’s worth.
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Re: Large Sea Creatures
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: April 4, 2017, 4:02 pm
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[center]Longest-living vertebrate is a 400-year-old Greenland
Shark[/center]
Tibi Puiu August 12, 2016
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A massive shark that can grow up to 20 feet long and lurks
beneath the chilling waters of the sub-Arctic ocean might be the
longest living vertebrate. Scientists say the Greenland shark
could easily live to 400 years old, or more than twice as much
as Jonathan, a Seychelles giant tortoise from the island of
Saint Helena, which holds the record for the oldest terrestrial
animal at 183 years of age.
A giant that lurks beneath the ocean
Julius Nielsen, a marine biologist at the University of
Copenhagen, estimates the oldest of the Greenland Sharks freely
swimming in the open ocean might be anywhere between 272 and 512
years old. Despite the broad range, even the lowest estimate
clearly positions the shark as the most longevic vertebrate.
Though very large, rivaling the Great White in size, and known
to eat animals like the polar bear, horse, moose, and reindeer
these venerable sea beasts are quite non-aggressive and harmless
to humans — unless you eat them. And because of its range and
habitat, the Greenland shark is still a mysterious species for
scientists. Of the 465 known species of sharks, only eight live
in the Arctic, among them the Greenland shark which can grow to
6.5 meters (21 feet) in length and reach 900 kilos in weight.
That makes it the biggest fish in the Arctic.
The sluggish Greenland Sharks can rarely be spotted, often
choosing to live in deep waters, often as deep as 400-600 meters
below the water’s surface. Which is why Nielsen and colleagues
had to rely on specimens retrieved as by-catch in fishing
expeditions. Fishermen don’t actively pursue the Greenland
Sharks but catch them by mistake while setting their nets for
more agreeable prey like cod or trout. They have a good reason,
too — the Greenland Shark’s flesh is packed with toxins and
eating it is considered highly poisonous.
The team managed to retrieve 28 female sharks measuring 31 in.
to 16.4 ft. (81 cm to 502 cm). Typically, to determine the age
of fish scientists study the growth bands in a calcified tissue
located in the ear called the otolith, sort of like measuring
the rings of a tree trunk to see how old it is. Since sharks
don’t have this tissue, the researchers turned to a very
unconventional proxy: the lenses of their eyes.
Eyeing the oldest vertebrate
Shark lenses are formed in the uterus, which means whatever the
shark mother ate made its way into the offspring. This means
that by measuring the radiocarbon isotopes found in the core
lens, we can determine what the environment was like before a
shark was born and, hence, its age. For instance, the late 1950s
saw thousands of atomic bomb tests which caused a spike in the
amount of radiocarbon that eventually made its way into the sea
— this is known as the ‘bomb pulse’.
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If a
shark had high levels of Carbon-14 in its core lens, on par with
bomb pulse readings, it clearly means the animal is at least 60
years old.
In our case, two of the smallest sharks had a post-bomb pulse
isotopic reading making them at most 50 years or younger. The
third smallest shark though had radiocarbon levels right at the
onset of the bomb, making it 60 years old. The rest of the 25
sharks all had pre-bomb pulse readings suggesting they were all
at least 60 years old.
By comparing these readings with known levels of radiocarbon in
the ocean from various years published in a database, scientists
could then estimate the age of the sharks. To make the estimates
a bit better, the researchers also assumed that the larger the
shark the older it was. When this was factored in, they found
that the largest shark they studied, a 16-foot specimen, was
about 392 years, give or take 120 years.
Not only is the Greenland shark perhaps the longest-living
vertebrate, it might also be a terribly difficult one to breed.
Some of the smallest sharks studied measured 31 inches, making
them juveniles — at age 50 to 60 years! Since Greenland sharks
are known not to reach sexual maturity until they grow to 13 ft.
(400 m), this means that this shark would have to wait for
around 150 years before it’s ready to become a parent. :o
Clearly, that makes them very vulnerable to extinction. Luckily
they’re poisonous and smell really, really bad ;D — this makes
them very uninteresting for humans.
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“Greenland sharks are among the largest carnivorous sharks on
the planet, and their role as an apex predator in the Arctic
ecosystem is totally overlooked. By the thousands, they
accidentally end up as by-catch across the North Atlantic and I
hope that our studies can help to bring a greater focus on the
Greenland shark in the future,” Nielsen said.
The groundbreaking paper was published in the journal Science.
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Re: Large Sea Creatures
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Date: April 21, 2017, 6:49 pm
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[center]A whale's eye view of Antarctica :o ;D[/center]
[move]Unlocking the mysterious lives of whales with camera
tagging [/move]
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Whales are awe-inspiring and often elusive creatures. Their
distribution and critical feeding areas are currently poorly
understood, and as climate change and krill fishing increase,
our time to learn more about these giant mammals is running out.
However, with the help of Dr. Ari Friedlaender, a whale
ecologist and National Geographic Explorer, WWF is using whale
tagging to discover a wealth of new information.
Suction cups
[center]Researchers are using suction cups to attach
non-invasive digital tags onto humpback and minke whales in
Antarctica. (picture at article link) [/center]
These tags contain both sensors and a ‘whale cam,’ which take us
on a day in the life of a whale. They remain on the whales for
24 to 48 hours before being taken off and reused.
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Re: Large Sea Creatures
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: April 30, 2017, 12:48 pm
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[center]Attack this lady's friends or offspring, you should not.
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[center]Are Humpback Whales Aggressive? ??? [/center]
In the past 62 years, there have been 115 documented
interactions between humpback whales and orcas (also known as
killer whales), according to a 2016 study published in the
journal Marine Mammal Science.
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> Agelbert NOTE: Below, please observe a smart seal taking
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[center]A photographer documenting a pod of whales in Australia
took this photo of a seal hitching a ride on a humpback whale.
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Reports have described humpbacks defending animals being
attacked by orcas, from seals and sea lions to porpoises and
other marine mammals.
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[center]Yep, Humpback whales are fast friends with Ocean
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There was one documented incident in which humpback whales tried
to save a pair of ocean sunfish that were being circled by
orcas.
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We
Humpbacks do NOT get along with Orcas AT ALL. [/center]
And in May 2012, in the most dramatic event of this kind, two
humpbacks spent six hours fighting off a pod of killer whales
intent on eating a gray whale calf they had killed near Monterey
Bay, California.
Heroes of the seas?
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•“This humpback whale behavior continues to happen in multiple
areas throughout the world,” says Alisa Schulman-Janiger of the
California Killer Whale Project. “(The 2012 event) remains the
longest humpback-to-killer-whale interaction known to date.”
•Orcas are known to attack humpbacks, which are most vulnerable
when young. However, once grown, a single humpback whale is
large enough to take on an entire pod of killer whales.
•Humpbacks are capable of sophisticated thinking,
decision-making, problem-solving, and communication, says Lori
Marino, president of the Whale Sanctuary Project.
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