'Whale Watching' in Berlin

[Ricochet]

Last evening, Greepeace brought a stranded fin whale to the Japanese Ambassy in Berlin. The fin whale stranded last thrusday in the baltic sea. Its 17 meters long and weights 18 tons.

"The Japanese need these endangered species for reaseach, therefore we brought them one", a greepeace activist said.



The story can be found here

(could not find an english version)

 

[island_sands]

OMG

Verging on the pathetic! imagine now the waste/cost to the city to remove it.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-1995479,00.html

Last evening, Greepeace brought a stranded fin whale to the Japanese Ambassy in Berlin. The fin whale stranded last thrusday in the baltic sea. Its 17 meters long and weights 18 tons.

"The Japanese need these endangered species for reaseach, therefore we brought them one", a greepeace activist said.



The story can be found here

(could not find an english version)

 

[island_sands]

btw thanks Ricochet, put it on the DB news.

 

[bdurrett]

OMG

Verging on the pathetic! imagine now the waste/cost to the city to remove it.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-1995479,00.html

The things was stranded in a small bay and died. It took them 3 tries to get it out of the water. On the last try that failed, it slipped out of the sling and fell about 10 meters back into the harbor.....

They also said that it was extraordinarily thin for a whale that should have been about 20 years old....

Now that the protest is done, they are packing it off to the whale museum in Starlstrund to be dissected and a cause of death determined.... Could be worse, I guess, they could have let it blow up like the one a few years ago... There was a dead whale being trucked through the city to a research station and it was so decomposed that it finally just exploded while being moved through town.... BIG :yack Rotten whale pieces EVERYWHERE.....

Here it is too darn cold. It will be frozen by the time they get it to the station....

 

[land shark]

Ok Im no marine bioligist but dont great white sharks feed on dead whales?
so now the greenies are taking food from one endagered species to try to protect another??

miles maybe a little help here?

jim

 

[Akoni]

There are no (not yet) Great whites that far north.

 

[land shark]

you get the point right?

 

[Akoni]

Maybe, the topic is about a stranded whale in northern germany and there are no great whites there, but if you mean whales in general then yes I get the point I don't know if the GW feeds on whales, maybe smaller ones, but not large whales.

 

[poacher]

The whaling stations in australia used to harvest the Bigger whale species and white sharks were common around these feeidng on the dead whales I think the sharks may avoid the bigger whales whilst they are alive and well but if sick or dead they have been known to eat them.
Peter

 

[Oldsarge]

Once a whale is dead, the GW's gather like vultures here in SoCal. They are part of the ocean's cleanup crew when carrion is readily available and part of the "cycle of life" when the sea lions are young and dumb.