Mass Dolphin Suicide?
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400 Dead Dolphins Found In Zanzibar
ZANZIBAR, Tanzania, April 28, 2006
(AP) Hundreds of dead dolphins washed up Friday along the shore of a popular tourist destination on Zanzibar's northern coast and scientists ruled out poisoning.
It was not immediately clear what killed the 400 dolphins, whose carcasses were strewn along a 2.5-mile stretch of Nungwi, said Narriman Jidawi, a marine biologist at the Institute of Marine Science in Zanzibar.
But the bottleneck dolphins, which live in deep offshore waters, had empty stomachs, meaning that they could have been disoriented and were swimming for some time to reorient themselves. They did not starve to death and were not poisoned, Jidawi said.
In the United States, experts were investigating the possibility that sonar from U.S. submarines could have been responsible for a similar incident in Marathon, Fla., where 68 deep-water dolphins stranded themselves in March 2005.
A U.S. Navy task force patrols the East Africa coast as part of counterterrorism operations. A Navy official was not immediately available for comment, but the service rarely comments on the location of submarines at sea.
The deaths are a blow to the tourism industry in Zanzibar, where thousands of visitors go to watch and swim with wild dolphins, said Abdulsamad Melhi, owner of Sunset Bungalows, perched atop a small cliff overlooking the beach.
Villagers, fishermen and hotel residents found the carcasses and alerted officials. Mussa Aboud Jumbe, Zanzibar's director of fisheries, went on state radio to warn the public against eating the dolphins' meat, saying the cause of death had not been determined.
But residents who did eat the dolphins' meat early Friday were all doing fine, Jidawi said.
The Indo-Pacific bottlenose, humpback and spinner porpoises, commonly known as dolphins, are the most common species in Zanzibar's coastal waters, with bottlenose and humpback dolphins often found in mixed-species groups.
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so sad..freaking military..
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poor dolphins..
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damn navy
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not confirmed it's the navy's fault you know...if you see the pictures you can see clearly that most of the dolphin's intestines/organs are spilling out of their bodies. So what kinda sonar is so powerful it can cause that? Then again i'm no scientist so anyone who knows, please enlighten...
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can post the picture
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400... tts a large number.. tts bad sia..
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rip
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lazy bro...y don't you just search "400 dead dolphins" on yahooOriginally posted by NewAge:can post the picture -
Dolphins may possess special intelligence which humans don't. Maybe their suicide is a warning to humans that a catastrophe is coming. Another tsunami or earthquake of a major scale? or even armegeddon from space?
Yet nobody knows. -
so long and thanks for all the fish....
hitchhikers guide to the galaxy -
so sad...
cant imagine it, 400...
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It is pollution
We are screwing up our environment.... -
bookmark this.
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Animals have been known to sense forthcoming natural disasters before hand..Originally posted by tigeer2:so sad...
cant imagine it, 400...
something is wrong with the world, there has to be...
there has to be. Dolphins dogs and a few creatures possess this intelligence
Normally animals giong into an unknown frenzy warns of a grave problem of natural disasters
Dolphins and dogs are 'nobel" creatures which are known to help humans or even save human lives in danger. -
yah i know that fact, that's why decided to post here to share with everyone..
weird thing is the villagers actually ate the dead dolphin's meat. Now'll we wait and see if anything happens to them.
It must be a very terrible thing to drive 400 dolphins to death. Yet stranger is the fact that cause of death is unknown! This is one of the things that follow-ups will not be reported widely... -
this just in:
original news source:
News24.com: Zanzibar dolphins were 'lost'
The dolphins, washed ashore in Tanzania's semi-autonomous Zanzibar archipelago on Friday, died of natural causes, said marine experts on Saturday.
"The results of our investigations carried out since Friday shows that the dolphins died of a natural disaster, known as confused eco-location. "Since the dolphins move in schools, and we think they were looking for food, unfortunately they were trapped or stranded during the tides. "We believe that the dead dolphins are the immigrants from Southern Africa. They are not Zanzibar dolphins, so Zanzibaris, and specifically the tourism department, should not worry, we still have our dolphins.
Some residents were burying the dead animals, others carrying the bodies home for food - despite warnings from the authorities against consuming them.
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Other theories say the dolphins were confused due to some ELF frequencies, and even HAARP...so they got lost, but what caused them to? -
maybe a coverup as not to cause mass hysteria?Originally posted by Hellraiza:this just in:
original news source:
News24.com: Zanzibar dolphins were 'lost'
The dolphins, washed ashore in Tanzania's semi-autonomous Zanzibar archipelago on Friday, died of natural causes, said marine experts on Saturday.
"The results of our investigations carried out since Friday shows that the dolphins died of a natural disaster, known as confused eco-location. "Since the dolphins move in schools, and we think they were looking for food, unfortunately they were trapped or stranded during the tides. "We believe that the dead dolphins are the immigrants from Southern Africa. They are not Zanzibar dolphins, so Zanzibaris, and specifically the tourism department, should not worry, we still have our dolphins.
Some residents were burying the dead animals, others carrying the bodies home for food - despite warnings from the authorities against consuming them.
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Other theories say the dolphins were confused due to some ELF frequencies, and even HAARP...so they got lost, but what caused them to?
Dolphins aren't dumb, they ar eintelligent creatures and they won't be done in by their own environment- the sea
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it's a conspiracy! -
navy and their damn sonar