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Killer whales 'body-slam' dolphins in Australia attack
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091217/sc_afp/australiaanimalwhaledolphin_20091217072028 ^

Posted on 12/17/2009 6:39:17 AM PST by decimon

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To: decimon

Killer whales are actually the largest dolphin not a whale. Smaller dolphins do this too to even smaller dolphins/porpoises. They can be meanies!

Killer Dolphins Baffle Marine Experts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1960033/posts


21 posted on 12/17/2009 7:10:32 AM PST by beaversmom
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To: decimon
a pod of killer whales attack a large group of dolphins

Obviously a turf war going on amongst rival gangs.......

22 posted on 12/17/2009 7:14:53 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (I want a hoochie-mama for Christmas, only a hoochie-mama will do............)
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To: SnakeDoctor

“hippos are vicious.”

I was under the impression that they wore tutu’s and danced in a circle like they did in Walt Disney’s “Fantasia.”


23 posted on 12/17/2009 7:15:58 AM PST by goldi (')
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To: wbill

>> People are really, really stupid.

You should read the story of the “Grizzly Man”, Timothy Treadwell.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Treadwell

There’s a movie about him called “Grizzly Man”. He was a severely disturbed individual — nature-lover, got along better with animals than with humans ... complete wacko. He apparently thought he had developed an understanding with a group of Alaskan grizzly bears over his 12-years of Alaskan photography expeditions ... until one attacked him and his girlfriend and ate them both.

SnakeDoc


24 posted on 12/17/2009 7:17:05 AM PST by SnakeDoctor ("Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much." -- John Wayne)
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To: wbill

Saw some idiot flatlanders do the same thing with a moose calf in the Big Horn mountains in Wyoming.

And no, it didn’t bite anyone’s sister.


25 posted on 12/17/2009 7:18:28 AM PST by Eagle Eye (3%)
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To: Daffynition

That is HORRIBLE ! Not Bambi ! LOL


26 posted on 12/17/2009 7:19:25 AM PST by Red Boots
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To: Daffynition

That’s like Bambi meets Godzilla.


27 posted on 12/17/2009 7:21:37 AM PST by decimon
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To: Tijeras_Slim
Not to mention how patient you’d have to be waiting for some breakers at the Butte.

Yeah. That, too. One could always use the wheeled surfboards with the sails on them, but then you'd have to worry about hitting things like sage, cacti, sofas, rusted cars, and the occasional corpse.

28 posted on 12/17/2009 7:23:27 AM PST by IYAS9YAS (The townhalls were going great until the oPods showed up.)
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To: Eagle Eye
I actually got stared down by a cow moose while on a fishing trip up in Maine. It was on a 1-pulp-truck-wide back road and the cow was as big as the pickup I was riding in.

She wasn't budging, and we couldn't drive around her. My guess is that there was a calf somewhere nearby.

Eventually (when the calf was safe, I'd imagine), she moved off to the side of the road and let us through. I wasn't going to get out and try for any photos, though.

Moose are thick, up in the North Woods. They used to amble through our fishing camp occasionally. It was a bit troublesome; I was worried that they'd step on someone.

The only thing that was biting up there, though, was the blackflies.

29 posted on 12/17/2009 7:27:54 AM PST by wbill
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To: SnakeDoctor

I’ve seen the FR articles on “Grizzly Man”. Read them, and said: “Yup, Darwin was right.”


30 posted on 12/17/2009 7:28:38 AM PST by wbill
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To: decimon

Bring on the Japanese! “F*** you dolpheen! and F** you Whaaale!”

(see South Park Season 13 “Whale Whores”, hilarous!!)


31 posted on 12/17/2009 7:29:13 AM PST by Pharmer (Palin in 2012! We are so screwed! Go Flyers!!!!)
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To: wbill

Had a wild boar do that in Germany. He stood sidways in the middle of the road as a roadguard until the heard passed, then stayed and extra couple of seconds as if giving us the finger, then strolled off.


32 posted on 12/17/2009 7:38:34 AM PST by Eagle Eye (3%)
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To: Eagle Eye

Al Gore blamed it on Global Warming.


33 posted on 12/17/2009 7:45:22 AM PST by scooby321
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To: Eagle Eye
then stayed and extra couple of seconds

"Because I can."

34 posted on 12/17/2009 7:46:58 AM PST by wbill
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To: decimon

This is what global warming has done to the sea and its creatures.


35 posted on 12/17/2009 7:50:23 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: decimon

The whales need some dolphin-flavored-tofu-meat-like substitute.


36 posted on 12/17/2009 7:51:21 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (If you need a < / sarc> tag, you're not paying attention.)
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To: Eagle Eye

A deer did exactly the same thing to me here in Pennsylvania. It stood in the middle of the road looking straight at me until I stopped. Then, three fawns darted across the road and the big doe followed.


37 posted on 12/17/2009 7:54:19 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: wbill
People are really, really stupid.

And Obama's election as President serves to confirm your view.

38 posted on 12/17/2009 7:57:01 AM PST by verity (Obama Lies)
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To: scooby321; Lancey Howard

I just think the orcas wanted some tuna-free dolphin.


39 posted on 12/17/2009 8:02:30 AM PST by Eagle Eye (3%)
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To: Eagle Eye

Saw something similar once while fishing on a levee/dyke at Loxahatchee on the edge of the Glades in S. Palm Beach county.
Tour bus arrives and sun burned tourists spill out for a quick look at the Everglades. One guy tells his 5 yr old boy to get closer to the water because he can’t get the 10’ gator in the shot too, the way the kid is standing...when I fished there I kept a .44 loaded with hollow points for just in case’, illegal at the time, but better than the alternatives.


40 posted on 12/17/2009 8:04:25 AM PST by skepsel
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