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To: jjotto
Whales get stranded as well as getting caught in fishing nets. Plenty of examples of the various species of beaked whales have been examined up close.

Catching a fish in a net doesn't tell you how long they stay under and how deep they can dive.

16 posted on 03/07/2017 6:52:37 AM PST by raybbr (That progressive bumper sticker on your car might just as well say, "Yes, I'm THAT stupid!")
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To: raybbr

Some of them have been satellite tagged.

http://www.cascadiaresearch.org/Hawaii/beakedwhales.htm


18 posted on 03/07/2017 6:56:24 AM PST by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: raybbr

The contents of the stomach can tell you what the animal eats. That indicates how deep the animal has to dive to get its food. For example, when people found beeks of Giant Squids in the stomach of Sperm Whales that indicated the whale had to be a deep diver to get down to the depth where the Giant Squid lives.


19 posted on 03/07/2017 6:56:30 AM PST by C19fan
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To: raybbr

They examine their black box - all kinds of info there.


20 posted on 03/07/2017 6:58:35 AM PST by choirboy
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