one of the uks worst animal disasters

[angelcakes]

over the last few days our headlines have been full of the tradegy that has hit cornwall uk about 26 dolphins that have died due to possible orca whales or possibly our own navy the dolphins were beached and died........link below explains all,this is such a sad story :ssad:

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[Dave66]

over the last few days our headlines have been full of the tradegy that has hit cornwall uk about 26 dolphins that have died due to possible orca whales or possibly our own navy the dolphins were beached and died........link below explains all,this is such a sad story :ssad:

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You're right it's a sad tragedy, but the Orca was just being an Orca, like they have the last 10,000 years. They eat other animals, just as most of us do. The only culpable party is the Royal Navy's submarine. It's been proven that high energy sonar damages the Cetaceans' echo location centers, making it far more common for mass beachings by whales and lesser ones than ever before.

Dave

[sandy_n]

OMG, such a tragic loss. You have a survey vessel using sonar for sea bed mapping and you have the Royal Navy carrying out training exercises with a submarine. Then there are the Orcas. It would seem that it would take more than just being chased by Orca whales for these dolphins to be found in 4 different locations. Will they ever know what happened? I'm not sure how they could state positively what caused this many dolphins to become stranded.
Orcas are already known to exist in that area yet a spokesman for the BDMLR states that it is an extremely unusual stranding. It certainly leaves open the possibility that there may have been multiple factors involved.

[angelcakes]

OMG, such a tragic loss. You have a survey vessel using sonar for sea bed mapping and you have the Royal Navy carrying out training exercises with a submarine. Then there are the Orcas. It would seem that it would take more than just being chased by Orca whales for these dolphins to be found in 4 different locations. Will they ever know what happened? I'm not sure how they could state positively what caused this many dolphins to become stranded.
Orcas are already known to exist in that area yet a spokesman for the BDMLR states that it is an extremely unusual stranding. It certainly leaves open the possibility that there may have been multiple factors involved.
this is something i would like an answer to being an animal lover

[Ryuu]

Poor dolphins

[sandy_n]

this is something i would like an answer to being an animal lover

I would too. The pictures were very hard to look at.

[smoochxoxo]

Thankfully I didn't read the article since there were pcitures of those poor dolphins. but from the comments and what was orginally written I would love to know the answer when it comes to light of what happened. I sure hope it wasn't due to "people behavior". If it is due to the whales well circle of life at its finest or maybe there is something greater that is wrong with the whales that is making them just kill? Like say in our tanks a fish would go nuts because of bad water params, or electric shock or whatever. maybe if it wasn't something toxic from people directly to the dolphins, maybe something triggered the whales behaviors in those certain areas?
hmm hope they figure that one out!!!

[ladyoutlaw50]

Those poor dolphins -- I do not believe the Orca's can be blamed for this tragedy!! Such a waste!!! They are beautiful creatures!!

[Red]

poor dolphins....

[angelcakes]

poor dolphins....
youre not wrong there