Dolphins abandon Bay of Biscay (So Long.......)

Dolphins abandon Bay of Biscay
Marine boffins very concerned
By Lucy Sherriff
Published Tuesday 21st August 2007

Most of the dolphins usually spotted in the Bay of Biscay are missing this year, according to researchers at the wildlife conservation charity Marinelife.

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But this summer, sightings of the cetaceans are down by as much as 80 per cent, along the ferry's route. Auks, gannets, and shearwaters are also in short supply. The research groups says populations showed no sign of picking up through August, and is concerned that the decline might be indicative of a bigger problem.

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Without wishing to play down the significance of the missing cetaceans, we have a couple of theories of our own. We suspect the dolphins have just gone home, as Douglas Adams predicted, or have been press ganged into US Naval service.

Of course, if they have gone home, that is bad news for the planet, as it suggests that it might be bulldozed to make way for an intergalactic superhighway. Bummer.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/21/missing_dolphins/

Adams was great!

There was a period of time in the 1890s when whalers thought they'd wiped out Sperm Whales. As it turned out, they were hiding en masse in the arctic.

It's still a shame, though.

"In no other area is mankind assuring his own destruction than in his decimation of the Cetaceans."
-Buckminster Fuller

:scared:

No need to disturb the Vogons whilest composing poetry.

Oh, fettled gruntbuggly, thy micturtations to me...

So Long and Thanks for All the Fish