CAPE COD AND DOLPHINS ?

[vineyardblues]

Since Dec. 10, 2005, 55 dolphins and 18 pilot whales have been found stranded on Cape Cod.

This is not new news,and has been going on for years and years but
it sure makes me grumpy when I read the paper and read that nobody has a clue as to why this happens!

VB

[Offshore]

Here's one I found and reported a couple weeks ago off Cold Storage Beach in E. Dennis. This was a Pilot Whale.

[thefishingfreak]

this will bring hoards of volunteers, who could care less about anything else, to push them back in. two days later they'll beach themselves somewhear else.
i don't get it? don't know why they do it? but leave em alone. let em die if they want. just pleeze don't let one of them have any knid of net or mono stuck on it or they'll blame it on us.
i know guys that would run down there with sharpened up hoe's and they wouldn't be pushing them back in..

couple years ago there was a baby humpback in the harbor. headlines were "baby humpback lost in boston" gimmie a break.
the thing swims all over the world to get lost in the harbor? paleeze.
same thing with a balluga whale in the harbor few years ago..

[Flaptail]

In the forties and fifties that would be considered a windfall from heaven to Cape Codders. Now we have the "CC Stranding Network" who try to push them back in and keep them wet and cry when they die. If the word goes out that there are stranded dolphins or Pilot whales on the beach they tree huggers come out of the woodwork and the call goes out on the local radio for businesses to donate coffe and hot food for the volunteers. Meanwhile down on North Street in Hyannis homeless people rumage through dumpsters for food and clothing and no one has yet to from a CC Human stranding network to help them.

Reminds me of a few years back when out west a woman was attacked and mauled to death by a mountain lion. She was a single mother with two kids if I remember right. They took up a collection for her kids at a local bank and they raised a couple grand. Now in the mean time they hunt down and shoot the mountain lion and discover it was a female with two cubs. So they take up a collection to help the cubs out via the local zoo. That appeal raised near forty thousand for the cubs. Our values are screwed.

Marine mammals have been doing this for years and man had been using them as a chance resource for years. In WWII Pilot whale head oil was a hot commodity. It was found that if it was super refined it would not congeal at high altitudes and cold temperatures. The reason the super secret Norden bombsight was so successful was that it utilized the super refined Pilot whale head oil. It could not have operated without it. Beautiful animals no doubt but some things will never be understood and man must accept that. BTW, they say Pilot whale meat is an excellent choice for dog food.

[Backbeach Jake]

When I first started in the car biz , A posi rear end required a little vial of whale oil as part of the service. I hate seeing those folks hugging and crying over whales and dolphins when there are kids without food and health care in this or any other state. I have a pic somewhere od 1100 pilot whales stranded at Cold Storage beach in N. Truroin the late 1800's That town hit the cosmic lottery that day.Whales were marked and slaughtered for the oil. I found one of the skulls about 10 years ago and took it to the Center for Coastal studies. One of the scientists there pointed out where the skull had been cut to extract the oil. Flaptail's right, people have twisted values.

[BigFish]

Yeah but as twisted as their values are, at least they are out there getting involved and doing something other than sitting around on their fat a$$! I agree with what you are saying though Flap and BBJ.....you got a point!

[Karl F]

Flap, BBJ

Blackfish Creek in Wellfoot... ever wonder how it got its name? (yeah, that)

A Natural Event, since Day 1.

[afterhours]

good post flap.