Marine Life Anomolies Log

[Marlantis Buzz]

It is time to start observing and posting unusual whale and/or dolphin activity.

If you recall the humpbacks were acting up a few weeks prior to last years tsunami.

I received this today...

http://www.ecoenquirer.com/dolphins-heading-north.htm

There could be many reasons for the the above so stay open minded. Still worth keeping inmind.

[smadewell]

Lost whales find their way to an early death (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/03/06/nwhale06.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/03/06/ixhome.html)
By Simon Barber
(Filed: 06/03/2006)

The spectacle of mighty whales stranded and dying on beaches looks like becoming a grimly normal event in the coming year, scientists believe.

More whales are being washed up than ever, leaving experts to speculate that mankind's industrial use of the sea is interfering with the mammals' sophisticated navigation system.

Thousands of visitors descended on the windswept Norfolk beach of Brancaster last week to see a 50ft sperm whale carcass that had been washed up by spring tides.

Since January there have been four sperm whales beached on the eastern shores of the country, against only one in the whole of England and Wales last year.

The casualties this year come from a bachelor pod of 20 young sperm whales that entered the North Sea in search of squid and is having difficulty finding its way back to deeper waters.

Dr Mark Simmonds, of the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society, said the whales had made a navigational error or an event had occurred to drive them away from feeding grounds.

The southern end of the North Sea where the young whales were was only about 160ft deep and it was dangerous for them because their senses were developed for deeper waters, he added.

Sperm whales are highly skilled in negotiating their way through the straits and narrows around the British Isles, usually keeping to the deeper waters around Scotland and Ireland.

However, the increase in industrial activity in the seas in the past 50 years has led conservationists to contend that shipping, sonar and drilling activities interfere with the whales' ability to avoid danger.

"Sound travels much further under water than above," said Dr Simmonds. "The whale's echo-location organs are particularly sensitive to high intensity noises. If they hear a sound that is distressing their natural reaction is to move away from it quickly. The frequency and volume of such sounds could be one factor pushing them into shallower waters."

Whales navigate by emitting clicks that travel through the water and bounce off obstacles. The quicker the sound returns the closer the object. Like their human counterparts, extraneous noise can affect the interpretation of information.

Sonar - a method of acoustic radar that ships use - is suspected to be one of the factors responsible for a 100 per cent increase in marine mammals beaching themselves over the past decade. According to research conducted by the Natural History Museum there were 360 strandings in 1994 against 782 in 2004.

The full effects of sonar on marine mammals are still unknown, but it is thought that they induce a condition similar to that known as the bends, or decompression sickness, in humans.

Dr Peter Evans, the director of the Sea Watch Foundation, said post mortem tests on carcasses of whales had found evidence of gas bubbles in the kidneys and liver - the kind of symptom that occurs if the mammal has surfaced quickly from a considerable depth.

Many of the species examined also exhibited damage and haemorrhaging to the echo-location organs, as if they had suffered an acoustic trauma.

Naval vessels are responsible for much long distance sonar transmission. Their devices are designed to locate almost silent submarine engines by transmitting a sound wave of up to 230 decibels through the water, about twice the equivalent noise of a jet engine and more than enough to haemorrhage sensitive whale organs.

In 2002 the Spanish navy abandoned an exercise in the Canary Islands when, after a sonar transmission, 14 whales died. Of the eight examined, all exhibited symptoms of decompression sickness.

A dead humpback whale washed up on a beach near Nieuwpoort, Belgium, yesterday after colliding with a ship.

No one knows what the fate of the young sperm whales in the North Sea will be, but Dr Simmonds said that it would be most unlikely if they all got out to deep water again and it would be no surprise if more beached themselves.

[Marlantis Buzz]

I'm bringing this subject up to view for those of you that have the time...please post anything unsual...even if it's your cat acting crazy a few days before a vulcan activity...meaning earthquakes to start.

[Judee]

Are you talking about things like this MB? This just happened a couple of days ago. Do you want it for ANY animals?


Location: Australia State of Tasmania Duck River area Smithton

Rescuers are hoping a high tide will help them save seven sperm whales that survived a mass stranding on the northwest tip of Tasmania. Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife spokeswoman Liz Wren said four staff members had made their way in a dinghy to Perkins Island, near the mouth of the Duck River at Smithton, where 50 whales beached themselves last night. "They are stabilising the seven whales and are monitoring them until the next high tide due this afternoon, which will give them an opportunity to rescue them," Ms Wren said. She said the area where the whales had stranded themselves was treacherous, with numerous sandbars making navigation difficult. She said some of the surviving whales were up 18m long. More than 150 whales died in a mass beaching at Sandy Cape, also in the state's remote northwest, in November last year.

[Marlantis Buzz]

Yes. at this point I now know I should have titled this in the area topic of any unsual animal activity. My mistake. Perhaps one of our members will take the time to log unusual activities and see a pattern that may be relative to a vulcan experience. Not my original idea but after experiencing my cat go goofy over the Napa CA., 2 point something quake some years ago I feel that here is a place to at some point log your experience/observation to start then continue. This forum is read by various people of importance that will appreciate the info. we may never know whom they are but , hey; their respose might pay off.

[Alpha]

I live just east of Toronto, very close to Lake Ontario.

This last week, at one particular supermarket, which I have frequented twice, I have noticed huge numbers of Canada geese, just sitting down in the parking lot.

They are laying about everywhere. They didn't move much and really not at all, when people either pushed their carts, nor when they started their cars, in very close proximity to them . Most just were just sitting there....almost trance like.

Yesterday, I was going to my car...and I so wish I had my camera with me, some were just walking around. They got so close to me and my car it was almost uncanny...all of them looking at me, all of them staring right at me.... right in my eyes, as if they were trying to tell me something.

They didn't flinch one bit when I opened the car door, the trunk...started the car...they were just looking at me and trying to tell me something or so I think. I never have had such eye contact and attention...specific attention from a flock of birds before.

I often can read our animal friends, yet I really couldn't this time other than I know they were trying to tell me and everyone in that lot something.

Canada geese are always here and around, however in all these years of living among them, I have never seen or experienced anything like this.

Anyone else see or experience anything like this?

I'll go back in a few days with my camera and see if this is still the case.

[Marlantis Buzz]

Not here Alpha but thank you for following thru on my request to note any animal anomolies. Who knows a year or two from now you might have some answers that we never would have expected...kiddo.

[Alpha]

In addition to my previous post, there is very little bird, squirrel activity here.....almost like a waste land compared tp previous winters.

No starlings, no sparrows, no chickadees...not one bird of any kind...or any form of other life.

There are days that I walk Chi...and we do this everyday, that there is not one bird of any kind visible anywhere....it's like the planet is dead....very eery...except for the Canada geese in that one parking lot....

[Judee]

In addition to my previous post, there is very little bird, squirrel activity here.....almost like a waste land compared tp previous winters.

No starlings, no sparrows, no chickadees...not one bird of any kind...or any form of other life.

There are days that I walk Chi...and we do this everyday, that there is not one bird of any kind visible anywhere....it's like the planet is dead....very eery...except for the Canada geese in that one parking lot....


Almost reminiscent of most of the birds and animals taking to high ground before the big Indonesian tsunami!

[Marlantis Buzz]

I could kick myself for limiting this thread the way I did. On the other hand lets keep it up as we are thus far within the ranks that read this.

Hi Alpha...I'm back...sorta

[Judee]

I could kick myself for limiting this thread the way I did. On the other hand lets keep it up as we are thus far within the ranks that read this.

Hi Alpha...I'm back...sorta


MB, maybe we could have Alpha move and rename this thread something like "Unusual phenomena in animals, humans, and plants, associated with impending quakes, weather, etc." Just a thought. I love the idea of the thread, as I've been researching this type of thing for years now!

[Marlantis Buzz]

MB, maybe we could have Alpha move and rename this thread something like "Unusual phenomena in animals, humans, and plants, associated with impending quakes, weather, etc." Just a thought. I love the idea of the thread, as I've been researching this type of thing for years now!

I"m sure that must be some work but I support your choice of words. I suspect from your previous entry that you may be right in more ways than you noted. I'm without further words at this point other than gut feeling is playing a factor here. Do understand though...my gut feeling may be 3 years off. Never-the-less this topic has importance.

[Judee]

I"m sure that must be some work but I support your choice of words. I suspect from your previous entry that you may be right in more ways than you noted. I'm without further words at this point other than gut feeling is playing a factor here. Do understand though...my gut feeling may be 3 years off. Never-the-less this topic has importance.

MB, it's your thread, and it's a great one! :notworthy I will contribute to it anyway I can. Can you PM Alpha and tell her what you'd like? It should be your call.

[Marlantis Buzz]

Check. But I feel I've created extra work. Will do...stand-by for correction

[maryals]

This is a terrific thread, I'm glad you resurrected it. You know, we need to be watching animal and plant changes/activity not only for climate changes earthquakes and volcanoes but also for changes in the magnetic field.

Alpha, OMG what you reported about absence of animals around your area is frightening! Geeee I think those geese prolly ARE trying to tell you something!

So far as I can tell things seem to be normal here in Downtown Anchorage area. I would guess there are the usual number of Ravens, Magpies and other Winter birds. I always keep an eye and ear open to Nature.

Mary and Bessie :umbrella:

[MuseNoir]

Everything is normal here in Southern California - lots of birds: seagulls, wild parrots, finches, scrub jays, sparrows, crows.. all normal activity. Possums are out at night, and squirrels are out in the day. Cats are crazy, but that is normal. I will let you know if anything changes.

[Marlantis Buzz]

Thank you both for your reply. I'm working long hours now and not able to keep up wif the time like years before. Again I invite you and the others to enter any unusual events learned and/or experienced.

Also, kinda off the subject but if any of you have the chance to play the 2 minute recording of Billy Meire's alledged UFO hovering sound within rooms distance of your cat...please take note of what your cat does. If you post the results, do note the type of cat you have. When Art playedit years ago my RAMESY the Wonder CAt (a Nordic Forest Cat) suddenly awoke, started bouncing off the wall, windows cabnets, etc. Just as soon as the recording ended, Rams went directly to the location to where he was originally sleeping and within seconds went back to sleep almost in the same position as before the recording. I emailed Art of the event but never heard back. Hey, I' didn't really expect to cuz he receives so many emails a minute. I 've documented this event other times in various places.

[Judee]

Volunteers tend last survivor from whale stranding in Australia
Mon, 02 Mar 2009

Sydney - The sole remaining survivor among a pod of 192 pilot whales that came ashore on Tasmania's King Island still has a chance of joining the more than 50 already returned to the sea, Australian officials said Tuesday. Five bottlenose dolphins that also beached Sunday at Naracoopa were coaxed or dragged by boat back out to sea, Tasmania's Parks and Wildlife Service spokesman Chris Arthur said.

One of the 54 whales that a 150-member group of King Island locals carried back into the water was brought back on land so it could be stabilized before another attempt could be made to refloat it.

"The good news is that that animal is still alive, ... and we are looking at our options," Arthur told national broadcaster ABC.

"But the thing to remember is that ... we had 54 live pilot whales and there were five live dolphins and that during the whole day we didn't lose a live animal. The dead were dead, and we concentrated on the living."

Arthur praised King Island locals for their efforts in keeping the animals wet to stave off the lethal dehydration.

"The work and the energy they put in was incredible," he said. "What we were doing was literally picking up animals in whale rescue mats. When you think that for each animal to move requires about 20 people, that's a significant community effort."

Often, those refloated break the hearts of those trying to save them by coming ashore again either at the same location or at a nearby beach. One baby whale was refloated twice before it stayed out with the pod.

"Families, children, mums and dads, grandparents - all here helping out doing their bit under the guidance of a local parks ranger," King Island council general manager Andrew Wardlaw told local radio.

More than 400 whales have beached themselves since November in Tasmania. Most of Australia's strandings are in Tasmania - indeed, most of the world's recorded strandings are there.

Opinions differ on why strandings happen.

Peter Mooney, general manager of the Parks and Wildlife Service in Tasmania, said that whales often put their own survival at risk to stay with their pod.

"They are incredibly socially strong," he told ABC. "One whale beaches, and the others come in to be with that whale, and we end up with the whole pod stranded. They just won't leave other whales they think are in distress - even if it means their own death."


http://www.earthtimes.org:80/articles/show/258153,volunteers-tend-last-survivor-from-whale-stranding-in-australia.html

[maryals]

Volunteers tend last survivor from whale stranding in Australia
Mon, 02 Mar 2009

Sydney -

Often, those refloated break the hearts of those trying to save them by coming ashore again either at the same location or at a nearby beach. One baby whale was refloated twice before it stayed out with the pod.

Peter Mooney, general manager of the Parks and Wildlife Service in Tasmania, said that whales often put their own survival at risk to stay with their pod.

"They are incredibly socially strong," he told ABC. "One whale beaches, and the others come in to be with that whale, and we end up with the whole pod stranded. They just won't leave other whales they think are in distress - even if it means their own death."


http://www.earthtimes.org:80/articles/show/258153,volunteers-tend-last-survivor-from-whale-stranding-in-australia.html

If this isn't proof of Intelligence and Emotion I don't know what is! It breaks my heart.

Mary and Bessie :bad:

[Judee]

If this isn't proof of Intelligence and Emotion I don't know what is! It breaks my heart.

Mary and Bessie :bad:

I believe they are far more intelligent, loving, and compassionate than 99% of humans Mary! Humans are the 'dumb animals' on this planet...:17:

[maryals]

I believe they are far more intelligent, loving, and compassionate than 99% of humans Mary! Humans are the 'dumb animals' on this planet...:17:

I totally agree!

Mary and Bessie having fun with colors!