Whale in London...

[naiad]

I saw this on the news...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4632808.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4631396.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4633376.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/4632194.stm

Hope it survives.

Lucia

 

[Bobco]

Confused and well lost, odds are against it getting back to the open sea, sure hope it does.

 

[oferdegi]

Thanks for sharing the story, Lucia.

I hope it survives.

Ofer

 

[land shark]

I was probably looking for its lost cousin, ya know the one the greenies dumped in berlin.

 

[Bobco]

Up date, things looking not so good , but outstanding effort from the BDMLR

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4633878.stm

 

[Oldsarge]

Explain to me why all of England gets excited when a whale, probably suffering from some sort of disorienting infection, gets lost in the Thames. I don't hear any kerfuffle when they get lost up the Amazon, the St. James, the Congo, the Murray, etc. London is the bleeding heart capitol of the world? Things do die naturally!

 

[BatRay]

Well, there was a humpback whale that wandered up the San Joaquin River in California some years back. I imagine that the coverage was pretty extensive for that. There are lots of people around the Thames at any given time, and no one wants to see a sick or dying animal like that. They are right to at least remove it.

 

[BatRay]

It didn't make it.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060121/ap_on_sc/britain_whale

 

[naiad]

Thanks for the update.

At least the rescuers did their best.

 

[Oldsarge]

Which is all anyone can do. I remember the international uproar over three grey whale calves that were trapped in the ice in the Bering Sea some years back. Planes, ice breakers, even whale-hunting eskimos all converged on them. Those whales died, too. Evolution continues.