Would explain their movements and their frightened squeals.
Posted on 06/23/2009 1:49:50 PM PDT by This Just In
Dolphins Discovered Fleeing Warming Tropical Waters
Pod of dolphins observed fleeing tropical waters, which have warmed to dangerous levels in recent years.
(Miami, Florida) Marine researchers who have been observing the same pod of dolphins off Florida's eastern coast for three years have now, for the first time, photographed the dolphins swimming directly northward.
"These bottlenose dolphins, possibly the smartest creatures on Earth, were observed swimming directly northward", said Prof. Bonita Krillman. "Given the recently observed warming of the tropical oceans, we theorize that this pod is heading poleward in search of cooler waters".
Underwater listening devices, used to pick up the normal playful squeals of the fun-loving dolphins, recorded squeals with a noticably different timbre, the researchers reported. "They sounded more terrified than playful", claimed Crystal Dearing, a graduate student working toward a degree in Anthropogenic Environmental Disasters at Scripps Institute of Oceanography. "They sounded distressed and fearful".
The scientists, who perform their work aboard the research ship "Gaia's Revenge" were noticeably shaken by the observation of the dolphin pod's behavior. "We were performing our usual tasks -- photographing and communing with the pod -- when someone yelled, 'Oh my God! They are travelling directly northward!'. We were stunned at the obvious implications of this unusual behavior", related Ms. Dearing.
Dr. William Fishman, program manager at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) Sustainable Wildlife Division was also troubled by the news. Contacted by phone, Dr. Fishman said "this is exactly what we would expect for dolphin behavior... if you had hot water poured on you, you would flee, wouldn't you?"
The group plans to extend their two week research cruise by another week to see how far northward the dolphins migrate. Even though the researchers have been working in the same region off the Florida coast for ten years, the present pod has been studied for only three years. Tragically, another pod that had been closely followed for seven years was decimated by a great white shark in 2003.
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>>(Miami, Florida) Marine researchers who have been observing the same pod of dolphins off Florida’s eastern coast for three years have now, for the first time, photographed the dolphins swimming directly northward. <<
For the first time in THREE YEARS!
Oh, the humanity!
What a joke.
>>”These bottlenose dolphins, possibly the smartest creatures on Earth...”
Again, what a joke.
I’m sorry, but why do these “scientists” assume that the only reason the dolphins are moving is the so-called extreme warmth? Maybe the dolphins are sensing storms or seismic activity (volcanoes).
LOL gotta love the ecoenquirer
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
How cool is it that they guy in charge of dolphins at NOAA is named “FISHMAN?”
What a bunch of idiots. They were swimming north so they are ‘fleeing’
You changed the URL from "The Onion" to the ecoEnquirer
Well the dolphins are probably smarter than the idjit who wrote this story.
Would explain their movements and their frightened squeals.
"Gaia's Revenge" Good Lord!
While I did wade through the emotional baggage and rhetoric of the story, I didn’t see a single water temperature reading — past or present — that would justify asinine comments like “if you had hot water poured on you, you would flee, wouldn’t you?”
Seems to me a real scientist might have been curious enough to RECORD the water temps these dolphins had been swimming in for days, months or years if there was a fear they were being cooked alive ...
Dr. William Fishman
If they're so smart why aren't they building cities down there?
Good one...
Poppycock! I was in the ocean a couple miles out off central FL and that water is freezing-a$$ cold!
Just play a couple of 0bama’s speeches and they’ll chill out/s Seriously, this is satire, right? Because if it’s not, there are a lot of seriously deranged people out there.....
This reminds me of this thread from this week:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2276897/posts
Dolphin 56’s playful antics have Jersey boaters flipping
nj.com ^ | Jun 21 2009 | Kelly Heyboer
“He has blogs, websites and a Facebook page devoted to his travels. Over the last 30 years, Dolphin 56 sightings have been recorded from Florida to Long Island. The bottlenose, whose dorsal fin was branded with a 56 for a research study in the 1970s, has spent his life swimming up and down the East Coast chasing down any boater or kayaker who might toss him a fish.”
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So if a single dolphin is travelling from Florida to Long Island, then they can go pretty far distances. To say it is strictly water temp or “global warming” is a stretch. Beyond all of that, the inevitable claim that it is MAN warming the globe and that it is happening at an astonishing rate AND that we can change the temperature “for the better” through land based means of CONSERVATION (vs. doping the atmosphere) is just playing the game.
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