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martyb
on Tuesday February 26 2019, @01:04PM
from the would-you-rather-have-LIVE-humpback-whales-in-the-Amazon-jungle? dept.
from the would-you-rather-have-LIVE-humpback-whales-in-the-Amazon-jungle? dept.
Scientists are puzzling over the discovery of a dead humpback whale in the Amazon jungle, about 50 feet from the ocean shore.
The calf was found on Friday on the tropical forest floor of Marajó Island, which sits at the mouth of the Amazon river, after reports that vultures were scavenging on the carcass. It was photographed and examined by the wildlife nonprofit Bicho D'água Institute and the region’s Municipal Secretariat of Health, Sanitation, and Environment (SEMMA).
Estimated to be about one year old, the whale baby was already eight meters (26 feet) from head to tail, according to an Instagram post from Bicho D'água. Adult humpback whales can grow to twice that size.
The team is not sure exactly how the whale ended up in the jungle.
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There's a Dead Humpback Whale in the Amazon Jungle and Nobody Knows Why
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(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday February 26 2019, @01:24PM (9 children)
Look for drag marks, if it's only 50' in that could be accomplished with a basic come-along tied to a tree.
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(Score: 3, Funny) by Only_Mortal on Tuesday February 26 2019, @02:15PM (5 children)
Aliens... it's always aliens with these kind of things. Probably ancient aliens too.
(Score: 5, Funny) by acid andy on Tuesday February 26 2019, @02:27PM (4 children)
Did it begin life as a bowl of petunias?
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(Score: 3, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday February 26 2019, @02:28PM
That was my first question. Were there any petunias lying around?
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(Score: 3, Funny) by crb3 on Tuesday February 26 2019, @02:56PM (1 child)
The ground was not friendly.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Only_Mortal on Tuesday February 26 2019, @03:17PM
It obviously forgot to be distracted so that it'd miss the ground.
(Score: 2) by cmdrklarg on Tuesday February 26 2019, @04:47PM
No, it began life as a nuclear missile. The bowl of petunias did too.
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(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday February 26 2019, @06:06PM (1 child)
Yeah, if not, tsunami? Not really much else I can think of.
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(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Wednesday February 27 2019, @01:13AM
Tsunami caused by underwater nuclear explosion.
Alternate theory: Russian Hackers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 27 2019, @05:59AM
I am astounded (and slightly saddened) no-one has drawn the line back to HGTTG and improbability ....
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday February 26 2019, @01:26PM (1 child)
He thought he hooked a catfish. I guess he should've gone to SpecSavers,
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(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday February 26 2019, @02:44PM
Yeah, my bad. It was too small to keep and too big to throw back.
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(Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 26 2019, @02:03PM (1 child)
From the article
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday February 26 2019, @07:44PM
We believe this is a calf which may have been traveling with its mother and probably got lost or separated during the migratory cycle
Damn, that's "Mr. Magoo" level on the "How Bad You Lost" scale!
(Score: 5, Informative) by EvilSS on Tuesday February 26 2019, @02:16PM (6 children)
And if you look at the article you can see it was in a low area that was recently flooded.
(Score: 5, Informative) by nitehawk214 on Tuesday February 26 2019, @03:19PM (3 children)
The article refutes is own clickbait title "and nobody knows why". Classic.
Reminds me of this. "Scenario number one. He's hanging by his neck in his fucking closet." [youtube.com]
How about we don't submit articles from Vice anymore.
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(Score: 3, Funny) by Gaaark on Tuesday February 26 2019, @06:13PM (2 children)
I thought that would be about David Carradine.
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(Score: 2) by EvilSS on Tuesday February 26 2019, @07:34PM
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday February 26 2019, @09:03PM
I thought Clyde Bruckman had revealed it would be Agent Mulder.
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(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday February 26 2019, @06:13PM (1 child)
In other words, they're acting like morons. If the tide was flooding into the jungle then the whale could have floated in with the tide. Other possibilities include the above mentioned hooligans with a come-along, and an infinite improbability drive in action, so I guess that's sufficient reason to say "we're still not sure" - if you're a moron.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 27 2019, @05:24AM
It was a Vice article... Of course the writer was a moron, you insensitive clod.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 26 2019, @02:27PM (2 children)
"in the Amazon jungle" and "about 50 feet from the ocean shore" are pretty contradictory and misleading here. Sure, you can argue that the jungle goes right up to the ocean boundary and that this is technically correct, but to most people saying that a whale carcass was in the Amazon jungle suggests something far from the shore. I don't know if this was worded this way intentionally or not.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Gaaark on Tuesday February 26 2019, @06:19PM
Intentionally. Click bait.
Just like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0 [youtube.com]
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(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday February 26 2019, @06:23PM
First rule of headlines: get people to read the article. There's no requirement for the contents of the article to correlate with headline.
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(Score: 2) by rigrig on Tuesday February 26 2019, @03:57PM
It evolved there.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 26 2019, @04:05PM (1 child)
If all the local people were issued go pro like devices and had their feeds streamed to a field office then officials would be able to go back in the videos to see what happened here. It could be funded by a whale tax and/or jungle tax.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Tuesday February 26 2019, @04:08PM
That is some serious dystopian thought process there. Let's hope, it never happens.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday February 26 2019, @05:20PM (3 children)
You can place whale lifeforms in jungle biomes for some reason. Sometimes they even flop right up onto land. Now I refuse to believe the Super NES had enough processing power to program in whale strandings, so I'm gonna assume it's just a glitch :)
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(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday February 26 2019, @06:22PM (2 children)
Your first two sentences sound like something theRealDonaldTrump would write! Yikes!!
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(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday February 26 2019, @08:31PM (1 child)
Pretty sure Trump wouldn't know what a "biome" was if he got dropped off right in the middle of one and died of dysentery (so long as we're referencing old games...).
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(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday February 26 2019, @11:43PM
Trumps like a CREEP-er.
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(Score: 2) by CZB on Tuesday February 26 2019, @05:32PM (1 child)
Disoriented, a whale flops and rolls further into land than previously expected.
causes:
the extreme pain of an earache
brain disease
ate a bunch of psychedelics
fleeing something that terrified it (Gojira, ships)
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday February 26 2019, @06:26PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJW67QN24SA [youtube.com]
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 26 2019, @05:44PM (2 children)
First sign, flying whales.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 26 2019, @08:38PM
Second sign, flying whales start coming down?
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday February 26 2019, @09:06PM
I am not a Twit, but isn't that image what Twitter uses when it fails under load?
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