Animalistic revenge?
Boaters off the New Hampshire coast have a whale of a tail to tell after a humpback slammed into a fishing boat and a pair of teen brothers caught the whole thing on video, then rescued the two fishermen who were tossed into the sea. In a highly unusual event, the humpback lunged out of the water Tuesday morning, then landed on the back of a boat, flipping the vessel onto its side. Video shows the fishers on-board, Greg Paquette and Ryland Kenney, fall into the water. They were soon rescued by Wyatt and Colin Yager of Eliot, Maine. The incident with the 21-foot vessel happened near the mouth of the Piscataqua River. The boaters were uninjured. In three decades Kennedy had never heard of a humpback in the Piscataqua River, until just three weeks ago. And she’d never heard of a humpback lunging on to the top of a boat in the region, she said. “I’ve never heard of that ever and I’ve been whale watching here since the mid-1990s.” Was the humpback fishing or it was it meant to reduce competition? NOAA admitted, two years ago, a humpback leaped out of the water in the middle of a cluster of boats and landed on the back of a fishing vessel off Plymouth, Mass???
Claiming their turf
A pair of rowdy sea lions were caught on video chasing beachgoers at La Jolla, CA Cove and causing panic on a crowded beach. A video shows the moment two sea lions charged through a crowd over the weekend, sending people into a frenzy. “The perception is that the sea lion is chasing after people, and that’s not it at all,” Eric Otjen, of zoological operations at SeaWorld. Southern California’s beaches and coves may see an increase in sea lions from May through July as the animals enter breeding season, according to the Dolphin Research Center. “And they all have territories. And some of them don’t have territories. So, the smaller guy running through the crowd of people is the one just looking for a spot to breed,” Otjen said. “And the bigger male that you see come in at the very end of that video is the one whose territory he was trying to take over.” Naturalists remind people there are federal protections for sea lions with guidelines requiring people to stay 50 yards away from the animals.
Feathered addicts fight for their turf
Last February there was a lot of rain in Slovakia. That rain swamped some farms and among the plants there were poppies in the fields. Swans are pretty much admired and respected by most folks and Euro’s in particular think they are benign works of art. Well a flock of wild swans found the field with the temporary lake and decided it would be a good spot to stop for a while.A swan gang (or maybe gangel) estimated to number more than 200—were initially attracted to the lake but decided to stay after getting high eating the flowers and fruit of the opium poppy, a bizarre situation that neither farmers nor conservationists had seen before. In the space of around four months, the swans wreaked havoc on the farmer’s field, destroying around $10,888 worth of plants over an area of more than about 12 acres. But the swans suffered physically as a result of their consumption, becoming dependent on the plant. Intoxicated birds were seen acting dazed and unable to fly or even walk. “The entire poppy plant is toxic except for the seed. Those swans don’t recognize it and thereby harm themselves.” “In principle, it’s the same as with a drug addict. When they eat less of it, they will be intoxicated. When they eat the same thing over and over and over and over, they will perish. They overdose,” Swans are protected by law in Slovakia, meaning he was not able to remove the birds without permission. Conservationists eventually got permission to remove the remaining surviving birds from the field. They took the intoxicated swans to two canals far away from the poppy field where they were forced to go cold turkey.
Whale tales
The blue whale is so big, that if you laid it end to end on a basketball court
the game would be cancelled.
Why are Orcas smarter than humans?
Because within 3 hours they can train a human to stand at the side of a pool and feed them fish!
Remember the whale: When it’s spouting off, is when it’s in the most danger of being harpooned.
What’s with the sudden influx of Killer Whale attacks on boats?
Seems Orcastrated.
July 25th Birthdays
1923 -Estelle Getty, 1968 – Wendy Robinson, 1978 – Louise Joy Brown, 1979 – Amy Adams
1968 – Mel LeBlanc, 1986 – James Lafferty, 1954 – Walter Payton, 1980 – Juan Pablo Di Pace