400 dead dolphins wash up on beach

[Vietcong]

wow this is strange!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12533135/?GT1=8199

400 dead dolphins washed up on some beach in africa..
some african scientist think it may have even been the us navy. thear was a us task force in the area, and thay think it might have been the sonar that throw them off course

from the artical
"ZANZIBAR - Scientists are studying the remains of some of the 400 dolphins that washed up dead on a beach popular with tourists on the northern coast of Zanzibar.

Among other possibilities, marine biologists were examining whether U.S. Navy sonar threw the animals off course.

Villagers and fishermen on Saturday buried the remains of the roughly 400 bottlenose dolphins, which normally live in deep offshore waters but washed up Friday along a 2.5 mile stretch of coast in Tanzania's Indian Ocean archipelago."

 

[Truronian]

Perhaps it was a badly planned invasion

 

[CartesianFart]

I say,"Hurry and get those dolphin carcasses and store them in meat packaging plant so we can have a dolphin sandwich for lunch!"

 

[Raisin Bran]

someone's been fishing with dynamite again .... lol

On a serious note ... I would go for the sonar cuz its not the first time I hear about sonars screwing up the echosystem.

 

[CartesianFart]

someone's been fishing with dynamite again .... lol

On a serious note ... I would go for the sonar cuz its not the first time I hear about sonars screwing up the echosystem.

You said echosystem ,not ecosystem.

is echosystem really a word?

 

[Xanikk999]

Poor dolphins. If they rule out poisoning i would like to try a dolphin burger!

Does dolphin meat taste like beef? They are mammals after all..

 

[Vietcong]

whold it realy be able to do this to so many dolphins??
y didnt it efect the other animals?

 

[Xanikk999]

whold it realy be able to do this to so many dolphins??
y didnt it efect the other animals?

Only sea mammals use sonar i beileve. And im just guessing but maybe there are no whales in those waters.

 

[happy_Alex]

That's a tradgedy.

 

[GoldEagle]

Why wouldn't they eat the dolphins? Hell, if no one has food in Africa, couldn't they have just shipped 'em out into the poorer areas? I mean, I would even eat dolphin here in America.

 

[Heretic_Cata]

That's sad.
I think it's the sonar messing up with their eco-location thingy too.

 

[amadeus]

So much for dolphins being smarter than people. I might not be any rocket scientist, but when I'm standing outside of a radio station, I don't go jump into the nearest lake.

I'd like to know when we stationed U.S. naval services in Tanzania, because that would be the first I've heard of it.

 

[Gangor]

Why is this so strange? Dolphin and whale strandings happen every year

 

[Bluemofia]

But mass strandings are rare, not to mention that a US task force was in the area... Suggesting that Sonar might be the issue here.

 

[AL_DA_GREAT]

Eat dophine safe tuna!

 

[warpus]

Maybe the dolphins have a distorted understanding of evolution.

 

[Rambuchan]

Perhaps it was a badly planned invasion

Is this history repeating itself? I mean, the Bay of Pigs, just, with, errr, dolphins instead?

 

[Che Guava]

You said echosystem ,not ecosystem.

is echosystem really a word?

Maybe it did interfere with their "echosystem". Smart Dolphins.....

 

[IglooDame]

So much for dolphins being smarter than people. I might not be any rocket scientist, but when I'm standing outside of a radio station, I don't go jump into the nearest lake.

I'd like to know when we stationed U.S. naval services in Tanzania, because that would be the first I've heard of it.

Jeezumfrickingcrow, man. Are you familiar with carrier battlegroups being able to steam hither and yon? Even off the coast of Tanzania?

And I bet if I immersed you in the right sort of flashing lights, you'd fall into that lake with no problem.

 

[El_Machinae]

The inside track says those dolphins had evolved thumbs, and the US of A was protecting humanity again.

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