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Blue Whale Beached -- Flipper to Be Amputated?
Science & Tech  (tags: whales, research, animals, study, ships )

Marty
- 56 days ago - news.nationalgeographic.com
The apparent victim of a ship collision, a dead 70-foot (20-meter) blue whale (pictured) washed ashore in a forbidding northern California cove this week.
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Bruce Anderson (30)
Sunday October 25, 2009, 5:13 pm
The blue whale, the largest animal ever to roam earth, is perhaps the most vulnerable whale in facing extinction.

We know their migratory paths and while ship collisions create the blue whales most consistant mortality rate, why do we not change the couses of shipping lanes...
 

Nan B. (51)
Monday October 26, 2009, 6:02 am
I am with you on this Bruce.
This is a such sad horrid fate of this beautiful blue finned friend.
So very sad...
 

marilyn s. (116)
Monday October 26, 2009, 8:33 am
OMG...

I'm Ill, this is happening way to much...to much traffic in our Oceans.

How sad!
 
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