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footfootfoot

12-09-2011 03:59 PM

Whales. Gettin' older by the minute

Found a link to this article on a primitive hunter forum I sometimes visit. When all y'all are being boring...

Granted the OP is from 2007 and the article is from 2000, it's news to me. Who knew how old those fuckers could get?

http://pratie.blogspot.com/2007/03/b...200-years.html

Quote:

In studies that could rewrite biology textbooks and establish whales as the longest-living mammals on Earth, scientists in Alaska and at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla have estimated the ages of three bowhead whales killed by Inupiat Eskimos in northern Alaska at 135 to 172 years. At the time it was killed, a fourth bowhead whale was believed to be a stunning 211 years old, the researchers concluded.

BigV	12-09-2011 04:15 PM

You're making arrowheads to hunt whales? You **are** ambitious, aren't you?

ZenGum

12-09-2011 06:09 PM

Well, you would expect them to be getting younger by the minute, would you?

HungLikeJesus

12-09-2011 06:13 PM

I don't think the ones in that study are getting any older.

xoxoxoBruce

12-09-2011 08:49 PM

Damn, they might get older than tortoises?

Griff

12-09-2011 08:51 PM

And they're smart, so they remember how we used to hunt them. I'd be real careful kayaking with the buggers.

footfootfoot

12-09-2011 09:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ZenGum (Post 779178)

Well, you would expect them to be getting younger by the minute, would you?

They're whales. Can't be trusted, I wouldn't put getting younger past them.

Quote:

Originally Posted by HungLikeJesus (Post 779182)

I don't think the ones in that study are getting any older.

:yum:

Sundae

12-10-2011 05:24 AM

Isn't that one of the excuses the Japanese use for still whaling?
Research that can only be done once whales are dead, including how old they managed to get... before they were killed.

I suppose I should be impressed that they eat them afterwards. No waste.
Except that it suggests "scientific research" means "excuse for getting hold of endangered species as a delicacy".

Spexxvet

12-10-2011 08:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sundae (Post 779257)

Isn't that one of the excuses the Japanese use for still whaling?
Research that can only be done once whales are dead, including how old they managed to get... before they were killed.
...

They could just cut off a fin and count the rings...

Lamplighter

12-10-2011 08:44 AM

:right:

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