Eight dead sperm whales found on German beach

[Little Tich]

Source: Metro UK

Eight sperm whales have been found dead on a beach in Germany.

The huge mammals washed up in Schleswig-Holstein only weeks after 12 others were discovered dead across several locations on the North sea.

Images, which showed them lying next to each other, resembled recent pictures taken of two dead whales on the Lincolnshire coast.

The pair of sperm whales at Skegness were believed to be part of the same pod as others found in Hunstanton, Norfolk, and Wainfleet in Lincolnshire.



Read more: http://metro.co.uk/2016/02/03/eight-dead-sperm-whales-found-on-german-beach-5660950/

[MADem]

1. Any Russian submarines in the vicinity? nt

[burrowowl]

2. Are they doing autopsies?

[Recursion]

5. "Necropsy", oddly enough

It's only an autopsy if it's a human.

[saturnsring]

9. you just taught me something

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

3. I count 26 since Jan. 9

Very sad.

[Recursion]

4. We just had a dead whale wash up in Mumbai

Same as this if I'm reading right: not beached then died, but died than beached.

[muriel_volestrangler]

18. Another one washed up in England today was definitely alive

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-35491621

and the rest of the BBC story reads more like most of the others were alive too when stranded.

[ErisDiscordia]

6. I didn't think whales would come that close to Europe

maybe they got lost?

If our navy is doing its usual noise exercises with NATO, it could be a cause...

[muriel_volestrangler]

19. They don't come into the North Sea normally - it's too shallow for their food (nt)

[Marrah_G]

7. Maybe some sort of virus or bacteria.

[Judi Lynn]

8. This lethal environment has to be reversed now. The innocent life here is leaving this planet,

while the murderous, malicious, malignant parasites seem to flourish.

[saturnsring]

10. mass extinction

the end will come like a thief in the night. meaning by the time you notice it it's too late

[toothless dragon]

15. Igornance is bliss

but very fatal. We are heading for a tipping point on so many levels, it is just a question of which one we get to first. My guess is the world food supply. It is hard to find clear numbers, but in 2007 we nearly went over the edge. Right now we have about a 45 day surplus of food over the 90 day stock on hand. Any major disaster that disrupts the food chain in any of the major producing countries and there isn't enough food to recover. A crop Cycle is 90+ days and we have 45 day supply. China is buying food lands all over the world with out much notice. They have a crisis on hand right now from contaminated crop lands and desertification. The have no bees and have resorted to hand pollination in many areas.

[Hestia]

11. NOVA had a show on last week about how the krill are not spawning in all areas like

they have in the past. Krill is what whales eat, along with almost all cold water fish, amphibians.

[Demonaut]

13. not sperm whales, they prefer squid and they lack baleen

[Hestia]

16. Ah, thank you - never mind

[JudyM]

12. 26 dead whales!

[toothless dragon]

14. Sea Birds in uncounted numbers dying

from starvation all along the west Coast. The Stories are really underselling the numbers. I have a friend who lives along the Cook inlet on the Kenai Peninsula and he says every day they are washing up more and more. There are reports from the Baja Peninsula to Alaska I have seen.

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/01/15/3739760/alaska-murre-die-off/

http://enenews.com/countless-dead-birds-reported-pacific-coast-seals-present-expert-fish-all-starving-animals-acting-weird-sick-weak-weak-fly-weak-run-related-fukushima-video

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/01/150123-seabirds-mass-die-off-auklet-california-animals-environment/

[ErisDiscordia]

20. It is thought to be Fukushima poisoning

How Fukushima can be so completely ignored is beyond me.