*sad*

[enismirdal]

The whale in the Thames died :(

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[hermeneut-me.livejournal.com]

nooooo :0(

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

Yeah - it was quite fun when it just seemed to be enjoying itself and having an adventure, but then it was going further and further upstream so they tried to rescue it. But then on the way back to the sea it started convulsing and died. I guess if it was sick anyway, it's probably better it died on its own rather than them having to put it down. Still sad. :(

[slayer9649.livejournal.com]

I've been keeping up with that story, too. They said that his nose and an eye were a bit messed up, but that was not unusual. Even so, since this was an adolescent, it is very sad that he didn't survive. Did you get to go down and see him, Eni?

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

Unfortnately not - it's an hour each way, minimum, from the station here to London, and with British train prices it'd cost about £26-£30 to make the journey, so it's not something I'd do on a whim really. I would have liked to see him if it was more convenient, though.

Yeah - when it's an endangered species like that, even losing one - when he was young enough to have had a long breeding life ahead - is not going to be great for the species. :(

[melime.livejournal.com]

Pilot whales are endangered? I had no idea. I had always thought they were quite common. I'm sad to hear that they're not. :(

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

Apparently they're now calling it a northern bottle-nosed whale. From what I can gather it's classed as vulnerable - it might be locally endangered, like just around the North Sea or something. The whole area there is pretty intensively fished and stuff, I think.

[melime.livejournal.com]

Okay, no, those are endangered. Or just rare. Like, you hardly ever see one ever (I used to read field guides as a kid because I'm weird, and any kind of beaked whale they were like "Here is a shitty picture because IT IS THE ONLY PICTURE THAT EXISTS").

Sorry, CNN lied. They said it was a pilot whale, and I accepted that, because pilot whales are the ones that are always getting turned around and beaching themselves all over the place. Damn you CNN, with your lies! However, we only have two news channels at my apartment, and I'll take CNN over FOX any day!!

[keiliss.livejournal.com]

I hate it when this sort of thing happens - well not EXACTLY this sort of thing, a whale in the Thames is a tiny bit unusual - but the whales that end up in the wrong place hopelessly lost are almost always adolescents or else very ill. It's good he died naturally though - where it gets horrible is when they have to be put out of their pain. We've had a few episodes like that and ... not nice.
Poor whale - I was so hoping he'd make it back to the sea okay/

[sheffers.livejournal.com]

I popped down to see him on Friday (trotted out of the office for half an hour down to Westminster). Unfortunately, my camera phone was out of battery.

Poor whale:-(

[fairypants.livejournal.com]

Don't suppose they tried mouth to mouth?! CPR?! Poor whaley whaley!

[jalbobble.livejournal.com]

Oh no! What about the baby one, is that alright?

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

Baby one? I only heard about the one...

[ex-robhu.livejournal.com]

That is sad :-(

*hugs*

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

*hugs back* It is...

[melime.livejournal.com]

Oh no! That's so sad. When I saw it on TV I was like "Cool!" and figured they would turn it around and all would be good. Was a bit worried because I'm assuming that the Thames isn't exactly the healthiest river ever, but I figured it would be helped out somehow. I'm very sad to hear that it died. :(

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

I think the Thames is better than it used to be, but it will always be the sewage outlet for London, I guess... But the brown colour of the water (very striking when you're at the top of the London Eye looking down) has more to do with silt than pollution, I'm told.

[melime.livejournal.com]

Oh, I didn't assume that because of the color. I assumed it only because it's going right through a major city. I mean, my hometown has a river to the east, and even small as the town is, we still managed to make it smelly and eww and are now having to pay for it (literally -- because of the fines on our town for dumping sewage or whatever they did into the river, we have to pay excruciatingly high water bills -- like it was our fault or something and not the city's). Anyway, there are always news reports on how the dolphins in the river keep showing up with skin lesions (sp?) and stuff because it's a horrible, horrible river.

[phoenix-elena.livejournal.com]

Poor whale :(
I've been following the story and kept hoping it would be ok. I was worried when they started saying it didn't look healthy.

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'd been keeping an eye on the news about it. It would have been nice if it had just turned around and gone back out to sea again.

[http://users.livejournal.com/fishyz9_/]

*sniffles* I know.

BTW, I got your package Eni :) You are so sweet thank you!! I got it on a really crappy day too, :) Thanks so very muchly *hugs of monstrous proportions*

xxx

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

*gives big hugs back* It sounds like you need something to cheer you up at the moment. And I like sending packages!

[luin77.livejournal.com]

:( *hugs tightly*

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

*hugs back*

[l-j-b.livejournal.com]

*sad* :*(