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A new population of blue whales was discovered hiding in the Indian Ocean
- McMini 6y agoGod I hate news sites that hide behind some kind of localstorage..
- a012 6y agoYou know, just like a population of blue whales who're hiding in the ocean, NYtimes article contents are hiding in somewhere in browser's local storage too
- choeger 6y agoWait a second. Are you telling me their paywall works by downloading the content to my browser and then hiding it? That would be ... ridiculous.
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- rossdavidh 6y agoMy God, don't tell anyone, we'll find some reason to go kill them...
- LandR 6y agoI doubt they were hiding.
- studius 6y agoWhile I thought the same thing, some whales hid from hunters in Iceland[1]. [1]- https://www.idausa.org/campaign/cetacean-advocacy/latest-news/hiding-whales-evade-hunters-in-iceland/ https://www.idausa.org/campaign/cetacean-advocacy/latest-new...
- xwdv 6y agoDoes word of killer humans travel within the whale community somehow?
- OneLeggedCat 6y agoWhales have a large vocabulary, large brains, social structures, and extremely old ages. Many simpler animals communicate dangers, some even have particular words for humans. It's entirely reasonable that whales might have learned at some point that whaling ships were dangerous, maybe even assuming that all ships are dangerous, and then communicate that to other whales, even for a hundred years, which is less than the lifetime of some whales.
- xwdv 6y agoSo this is why some whales will jump out of water and fall backwards on to kayakers, killing them with their gross tonnage.
- randoramax 6y agoNever heard of whale killing a kayaker with a jump. Source?
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- usernamebias 6y agoGreat. Now leave them alone.
- rasz 6y agoDid Japan sent their scientific mission to investigate yet?
- bigbubba 6y agoTwo points: 1) Japan does not presently hunt blue whales and hasn't for some years. 2) For the past few years Norwegians have killed more whales than the Japanese, yet the Japanese receive the lion's share of criticism for it. https://iwc.int/total-catches https://iwc.int/total-catches
- echelon 6y agoI have never heard of Norwegians conducting whaling. Why aren't they being reamed for it too?
- Retric 6y agoA significant difference is Norway was only hunting minke whales which are still in the least concern category. Japan however was hunting actually threatened Sperm whales and Fin Whales. Further, they where doing it under the auspices of research far from Japan vs Norway which was more brazen, but also more local. PS: Alaskan whale hunting by Inuit also largely gets a free pass.
- bigbubba 6y agoPer that chart, Japan predominantly hunts minke whales, and last took a single sperm whale in 2013. Indonesia kills approximately 20 sperm whales every year.
- Thetawaves 6y agoInuits taking a few whales a year as a traditional food source is in no way comparable to the commercial endeavors operated by the Japanese.
- PostOnce 6y agoWho is it giving the Inuit a pass? Why do they have a say in it? Someone shows up thousands of years after the fact and starts telling the Inuit what they can and can't eat? I don't see that as a defensible position to hold. The Inuit should be able to eat their own whales if they want to.
- djtriptych 6y agoReally hope someone is thinking about the ethics of releasing this information. In birding for instance, there's often an unwritten rule of obscuring locations of rare species when it's reasonable to think additional traffic would threaten the bird.
- mistrial9 6y agoI believe that endangered species data in the USA is routinely hidden, due to actual cases of real-estate developers finding and killing the last remaining species in order to clear a development project. Note- college educated American citizens with financial responsibilties have been caught and found guilty of this
- djtriptych 6y agoYeah college educated has been meant ethical. Really that would have been my guess for who would do this sort of thing. Easy to justify on a spot basis.
- djtriptych 6y ago*never meant
- jelliclesfarm 6y agoWhere can I read more about this? In California at least, there is a prohibition on picking carcass of birds and animals even if it’s on your own property. They have to be surrendered to sanitation Dept if in an urban area or fish and game outside city limits. This is mostly to discourage trade in animals and birds captured for medicinal purposes or for selling to taxidermists looking for specimens. Even roadkill is prohibited.
- bigbubba 6y agoFrom what I understand, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act makes it federally illegal in all of America to do nearly anything with even roadkilled birds.
- OpticalWindows 6y agoHide and seek champions of 2020?
- stevespang 6y agoDON'T TELL THE JAPS OR ELSE THEY WILL SAIL IN AND KILL THEM ALL. I WISH GREENPEACE HAD A SUBMARINE WITH TORPEDOS.
- pruthvishetty 6y agoFunny how the largest animal on the planet needs to hide.