How do whales die on land and why?
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harris vot for me patrick
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No animals in the ocean cannot be struck by lightening generally speaking because the creatures are not on the surface of the water like a boat. When the lightening hits the water, it's energy is discharged on the surface, not below the surface.
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Whales do not have body hair. In utero they have sparse hairs that are lost further along in development. they do not have any actual hair on their body, not even little ones that we cannot see with the naked eye.Hairs along the body would severely interfere with their hydrodynamics and increase drag, thus reducing their efficiency in the water, so it would not behoove them to maintain hairs.
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Not all fish do die when taken out of water. Some fish can survive indefinitely out of water provided they are kept moist with rain or dew.\n\nOf those fish that do die the most common cause of death is suffocation. \n\nFish mainly extract oxygen form the water through their gills. The gills of fish consist of hundreds of thousands of tiny strands, almost like hair. Have you ever seen someone with long hair underwater and noticed that the hair floats out from the head? Well underwater the gill filaments behave the same way. In the water those strands float apart and the fish is able to to extract oxygen from every one of them. \n\nWhen the fish is taken out of water the gill flaments collapse.  Look at a perosn with striaght hair when they climbs out of the water and notice how the hair all sticks together in a sheet? The gills of a fish behave the same way. On dry land the gill filamens of the fish all stik togather. Instead of being able to extract oxygen from each one it can only extract oygen form the ones in the surface layer. That just can't provide the fish with enough oxygen and it suffocates.\n\nContrary to popular belive fish don't technically die because they can only extract oxygen form water. Fish could breath air just fine if the gill filaments didn't collapse. \n\nIOW fsh die on land because air can't support their bodies the way that water can.
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Japan.\n\nThey still send out whaling ships to kill whales.\n\nKeep in mind, that just because it is illegal in some countries to kill whales and dolphins, it doesn't mean that it doesn't happen. People just don't get caught. Or, sometimes they are accidentally killed in fishing nets.
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Neither. Killer whales do not attack or eat people. They only eat fish and (i think) some variety of seal.
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I highly encourage you to read about and see the stunning pictures of orcas in the April 2005 issue of National Geographic.  \nHere's an exerpt: http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0504/feature6/index.html\n\nIt is mentioned in this article that there are NO *confirmed* deaths of humans from orca attacks--ever.  A least one surfer has been roughed up, according to this article, but apparently, the orca let go.  (I don't know how seriously the person was hurt).  Pearl divers in the south seas report being gently nudged, only to turn around and face an orca!  They were never harmed, and it seemed the orcas were curious.  \n\nRead about the encouter an Alaska boy had with an orca in August 2005: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002445380_orca19m.html\nExcerpt from this article:\n""He's about the first person I know of that's actually been approached and touched," said Craig Matkin, a Homer, Alaska-based marine biologist and co-director of the North Gulf Oceanic Society.\n\nThere has never been a documented fatal killer-whale attack on a human. The only relatively well-documented bite was one suffered by a surfer in California in the early 1970s. "\n\nIn any case, orca attack is nothing to worry about because it is so unlikely.\n\nThere are indeed two different types of orcas (aka killer whales).  There is enough data to support the classification of these two types into different species.  Most of this research has been conducted in the Pacific Northwest.  \n\nThe resident orcas, which tend to live around one location, eat only fish.  The transient orcas, which travel great distances and don't prefer one locale in particular, are the ones which eat *only* sea mammals like dolphins and seal lions.  A few decades ago, when orcas were being captured for display in aquariums, a few captive orcas would starve to death instead of eating the fish that they were given.  It was puzzling then, but it makes sense if these orcas were transients.  \n\nResident and transient orcas look different (different size dorsal fins, 4 feet vs. about 6 feet), and have totally different "languages" of communication.\n\nAgain, read that article in National Geographic--it will give you a sense of what powerful hunters they are in the wild, as well as how beautiful and clever they are.
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I would guess Japan, the killer of whales & seals. It could be China but Japan seems to think less of animals.
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Q: Do killer whales kill and eat sharks?\nA: Sometimes, but they probably don't do it very often. Killer whales usually eat fish, and sometimes seals, sea lions or even whales or dolphins. You may be surprised to learn that even thought they are the top predator in the sea, ill, injured, or very young killer whales may be prey for some large species of shark.
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Blue whales live about 25-30 years!
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It is well known that subsonic and ultrasonic sounds affects in various ways the behavior of animals (insects, birds, bats)( hit against walls, change their mating seasons, lack of hunger, etc) , because they are sensible to this frequencies. Also, the beings exposed to strong sounds can suffer dumbness and even die\n There is the theory that many of the whales that got stuck in beaches and die, do this because their natural "sonar" fails, either by action of parasites or because of the sound of ships
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I'm no expert, but someone might have slaughtered a whale on you land and meant to write "marine whale oil". Watch your step. I don't know if you use slabs or what in your area, but it is safe to dig I would think. Let us know if there be whales there!
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Mainly their thick outer layer of blubber is able to absorb a lot of the pressure.  Their immense size does help even it out.  Unfortunately, even though they are built to be able to dive that deeply, it's not a harmless thing.  Whales do get the bends.  Often whale bones, especially those of sperm whales, show signs of nitrogen bubbles in the blood and tissues.  Over time it does cause them pain and in some rare cases some deformity.  So they're designed to be able to do it, but it is not risk-free to the whale.  There is a biological cost.
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Land animals can walk on land and breath oxygen. With the exseption of dolphins and whales the others cant breath oxengen.
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It was a environmental disaster, probably the worst ever caused by an oil spill. Thousands of animals died including sea birds, otters, seals, bald eagles, orcas, salmon, and herring. Also, there was severe ocean and soil oil contamination.
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Some of them are buoyant and sleep floating on the surface breathing air. Others can do what in humans is comparable to the "dead man's float" where you are under the water motionless then tilt your head back only, rise to the surface to breathe, tilt it back and resubmerge. Hippos can do this without ever waking up so I assume some marine mammals can too.
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well they are wild animals so there's always the possibility that seals can be aggressive. the leopard seal which generally lives in Antarctica has been known to kill humans. however, seals are also known to be playful, so it could have been curious and gone to check you out :)