Re: OT - Greenpeace Dumps Dead Whale Outside the Japanese Embassy in Berlin.
- From: alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Alan)
- Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 12:33 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)
In article <memo.20060120113819.648C@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Alan) wrote:
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4627178.stm
>
> A huge beached whale has been dumped outside the Japanese embassy in Berlin.
> in a Greenpeace anti-whaling protest.
>
> The controversial environmental activists hauled the fin whale to Berlin from
> the Baltic coast after finding it beached on a sandbank.
>
> The dead whale measured 17m (56ft) long and weighed 20 tonnes.
>
> Activists are trying to demonstrate that there is no need to kill the mammals
> for research - as Japan does - because cadavers can be found.
>
> Can you imagine that? A dead whale stinking up the centre of Berlin?
>
> ROFLMAO
>
> Alan
>
> http://veloceraptor.blogspot.com/2006/01/greenpeace-dumps-dead-whale-outside.h
> tm
> l
It gets even better:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1691203,00.html
"It was on this side of Westminster Bridge and 10 minutes ago it was near the
House of Commons.
"I think it's being looked after by a lifeboat to make sure it doesn't get
disturbed by the shipping in the river. It was an amazing sight."
Liz Sandeman, a marine mammal medic, went out on a boat to examine the animal
and said it looked like either a pilot whale or a Risso's dolphin.
After her close encounter with the creature, she said: "It looks quite healthy
and quite relaxed. It's breathing normally and its weight seems good.
"It struggled a bit when it passed under Westminster Bridge but that's the
hardest bridge for it to swim past because of the tide.
"It took about 45 minutes for it to get past the bridge and 20 minutes later it
was about 100ft further upstream towards Millbank. It's slow but not because
it's ill."
The medic, a director of charity the Marine Connection, said boats in the river
could be a danger to the animal.
"There's also the noise which could affect it - the Thames is extremely busy,"
she said.
"The last thing we want to do is stress the animal out.
"Some people think it has lost its way or is not feeling well, but it's very
hard to say why it is here."
Alan Knight, of the British Divers Marine Life Rescue group, said they had first
received reports of the creature making its way up the Thames yesterday.
He said: "Yesterday, we had a report of two whales going up the Thames and we
sent divers but we only found one.
"About 6pm it went back out again past the barrier and we thought it was gone.
"Then at 8.30am today we got a phone call from someone on a train who thought
they had just hallucinated and seen a whale going up the Thames near Waterloo
Bridge.
"We went out again and found it's a pilot whale, five to six metres long.
"It seems to be nutritionally OK and it's still going upstream, which is a good
sign.
"If it goes ashore we will launch a rescue."
He said it was worrying to see a pilot whale on its own.
"Our understanding is that a pilot whale is a social animal which lives in a
pod," he said.
It was also more likely to be seen further south, for example in waters around
Tenerife, than in the English Channel.
"It may be that it's decided to go up there and got lost."
There was no immediate comment from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister,
John Prescott.
Alan
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