dude whales rock I hope they manage to survive the whalers.

:(

Are whales endangered? If so, fuck whalers. I tend to care for animals more than humans as it is.

If not, whatever.

It's rather more complicated than "whales being endangered or not". There are many different species which have each been exploited differently, and some, despite being more numerous, may nevertheless be more vulnerable. Also, species that may not be threatened overall may have critically endangered populations around the world.

Overall most whales who have been hunted in the past have made admirable recoveries as they claw their way out of dodge, but most remain "conservation dependant," which does appear to indicate that their survival is somewhat dependant on their conservation. Many more we simply have no clue about whatsoever. Only in 2003 a whole new species of rorqual (baleen whale like the blue and humpback, not right and grey) was discovered, though we are still verifying that with DNA testing.

Whaling never actually wiped out any species (that we know about) but some came damn close, if those bans had not come when they did, I shudder to think. What whalers have eliminated, though, was the whale-sized sirenian Hydrodamalis gigas, more commonly known as Steller's sea cow. The last one was hauled bloody and torn from the waters of the Bering sea in 1769. Record time, given that the animal had only been discovered in 1741.

Co‐founder of Greenpeace.

Yeah, it’s thriving. He’s so going down.

You don’t need to warn when you’re shutting up, Mudling. Just shut up.

Criticism of terminology accepted. I was trying for ‘clearly knowingly ironic’ to reduce seriousness. I’ll reconsider how I’ll refer to a small group of people without namesdropping in the future.

We're whalers on the moon!
We carry a harpoon!
But there ain't no whales,
So we tell tall tales
And sing our whaling tune!

In during TENTACLE RAEP

Anyway...

Apparently military testing of sonar had began killing whales, making their brains explode, etc..

Well, this got into a discussion of cancer in my art class, and being that a better part of the fucktards have cellphones, they think the radiation will kill them.

Well, to console them, I stood up, smiled, smiled wider, smiled much, much , much, much wider, bore my tooth hole, and said "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

To each and every one of them, whilst pointing, jumping up and down, and dissapointing my teacher.

I love art.

I though it just made them go dizzy, and not be able to find food...So has the military gone 'whaling'? Just as I though...

whaling? Pha, what a waste of time. No reason at all to it. I mean, there are quite a lot of other creatures to eat, so why kill whales?

It made whales beach themselves, but I don't know if that's due to temporary confusion as the sonar was running or a permanent injury.

I think it broke their eardrums. Now marine biologists are advising the military and other users of sonar to use frequencies that whales do not.

Sonar interfering with an echolocating animal is the equivalent of a human trying to see with random flashes of light and colour popping up across their vision. Imagine walking around with a strobe light strapped to your face.

Okay, and after that?

I'm not sure what effect that has on their behaviour, besides the fact that it appears to result in mass beachings.

Eardrums don't work that well in water...

EDIT: Wait, they do... *headslaps*

Yeah, these are whale eardrums we're talking about. The inner ear of whales came up in my exam last Thursday. They're inside bone cases suspended by muscles and ligaments inside the whale's skull.

As you see, I edited it already :P. Since I remembered that human eardrums work underwater as well. We just don't have the means to communicate underwater, without using some kind of technology, or at least something that doesn't involve sound waves traveling through air :P.

Poor whales! Hmm, after all, their eardrums need to be quite sensitive to hear the 'songs' of the other whales through all that salt water. But how could it break their eardrums? It it too loud or something?

It may just be underwater weapons testing that does the physical damage to their ears. But yes, particularly loud noises have the tendency to bust eardrums. Happens to people all the time.

A balloon exploded in my face a few days ago, my ear is till ridiculously sore.

BIG BALLOON

Through all that salt water? You do realise sound travels alot better through water than air?

The only reason whales' eardrums would need to be particularly sensitive is to hear other whale songs from a ridiculously huge distance, which they do do.

Obviously I didn't, or I wouldn't of said it. Duh.
Hmm, so their pods are spread out, they just use that to communicate with others, maybe to tell each other where good sources of food are...Can certainly see what dead ear drums can cause a fine hassle.

Hah, first to see it!

*High fives no one*

Apex predators ladies and gentleglocks. Creatures that have no natural opposition besdies each other or just non at all. In fact, scrabs are apex predators according to the wikipedia.
But more important stuff, to start with this picture. http://www.oddworldforums.net/attach...1&d=1201902056
And that is happening every day! And why? Because some rich want WHALE MEAT?!!!!! What are we Glukkons? This is real sad, just because your annoyed people cant save animals from extinction?? Shall I make you guys a whale or something? *sighs* and I thought people started becoming more aware due to playing Oddworld. What was I thinking, were humans, world eaters. Sad veery sad.

Whales are not apex predators. They a preyed upon by orcas and occasionally sharks.

You're just as annoying.

Go save some whales.

I ment the whalers ><.

Theres a difference between annoyed and right. And im right and your not.

BM's right, Ghost made this thread as a joke and you just double posted.

Sorted.

Don’t double post, Sticker. I would suggest there are some other things you don’t do, but observing your attitude, I doubt you’d take the advice graciously.

Oh come on, thats a painting. Just check out the blood detail. A quick google image search for the term 'whaling' will get you far better results.

Zing. i'm not much of a grammar nazi, but come on, the your/you're thing is a pretty easy one to grasp

STOP POSTING CLOVERFIELD SPOILERS

what in the hell's all this blubbing gonna' do about it anyway?!

stop blubbin'!!