Whale Perishes After 53 Days in Klamath River
The story of this whale caught my eye and prompted me to do a few searches online concerning whale and dolphing die offs (see links to the search results below the Pacific gray whale article.
Animals such as this whale which is a very large mammal (like humans/us!) (and including newborns and the youngest) may show an increase in deaths due to radiation sickness (although who is going to test for this in animals this large and will they?)
http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/blog/29596/beloved+pacific+gray+whale+per...
Beloved Pacific gray whale perishes after 53 days in Klamath River
By: Pete Thomas, GrindTV.com
'An adult female gray whale that lived in Northern California's Klamath River for 53 days died early Tuesday after beaching itself twice on a sandbar.
The 45-foot cetacean, which had become beloved by locals and tourists, developed respiration problems Monday afternoon and had trouble swimming in an upright position. On Monday evening it beached itself on a sand bar in the middle of the river. It was coaxed back into the river, but swam back onto the sandbar. The whale perished at about 4 a.m....'
SEARCH RESULTS FOR INCREASE IN WHALE AND DOLPHIN DEATHS:
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-Off my menu: All Seafoods because the oceans really are a military and industrial sewer! Yes, I will miss Anchovies on my pizza, fishsticks, red snapper, tuna (even 'chicken of the sea' is no longer 'worthy,'crab, fake crab (made with Pollock, an ocean fish), clam chowder, Nori Seaweed,Caviar etc... See: http://pstuph.wordpress.com/2011/04/01/can-ocean-currents-transport-radi...
