The Whale Died

The whale died, and I cried.
Why did I cry?
I cried for everything.
The little whale was lost and sick. He found the River Thames, and swam it. All persons who saw him lost were deeply moved. They wanted him to be fine. A rescue attempt was made to take him back to sea, but he died.
A whale is a mammal. Whales have hearts and cardio vascular systems. Who are we to say that the whale does not possess an emotional system also? The whale had a heart attack. Here is the symmetry. The hearts of Londoners and the World were moved by the whale. The moral of the story. We should care about every single sentient being on the planet as our hearts were moved by the bottle-nosed whale, lost, could not find his way home.
The whale showed that it is possible for everybody to feel the same thing.
I believe that. We , as a species, human, are capable of it. It may take a lot of effort and a lot of change, but there is the truth of the matter.
Meditate on Whale song for a bit, and you'll know what I mean.

I'll say it again
quantum synchronicity abounds
whilst the world whirls
through the turbulence named time -
watching whales wailing.
in the silence
the stones do speak.
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whales wail and stardust sifts.

I'm glad to be almost out of the month of the anger of righteous indignation. no matter how many times i tell myself that it is here for a reason, i still don't like it.
Story Follows.

Lost whale dies after rescue bid

A whale that became stranded in the River Thames has died after a massive rescue attempt to save its life.

The 18ft (5m) northern bottle-nosed whale was first spotted in the river on Friday and rescuers began an attempt to save it on Saturday morning.

But the whale died at about 1900 GMT on Saturday as rescuers transported it on a barge towards deeper water in the Thames Estuary.

It was moved after being placed in a special pontoon near Battersea Bridge.

Alan Knight, from the British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) which led the rescue operation, said the animal died after it began to convulse while it was still on the barge.

It has been a helter skelter ride all the way through. It is a sad end to a very long day," he said.
"Basically this is probably the right thing to happen in the end.
"If it had continued in this way we certainly wouldn't have released it.
"Perhaps this has saved that very difficult decision."

Rescuers tried to keep the whale cool as they moved it by barge

Earlier, close to Battersea Bridge, thousands of onlookers applauded as rescuers placed the whale on to a pontoon to move it from shallow water.

It was winched on to the Port of London Authority barge where it was laid on an inflatable raft functioning as a "makeshift whale mattress".

As the whale was carried upstream towards the estuary a vet administered antibiotics.
Earlier, naturalist and television presenter, Terry Nutkins, said the rescue operation was the wrong thing to do and that the animal needed space.

He told BBC Radio Five Live: "It wouldn't know what was happening, it was surrounded by boats...it would have been absolutely terrified as well as being stressed because it wouldn't be used to noises of propellers or engines.

"It was kept...like a goldfish in a bowl. So, it doesn't surprise me that it's died."
However, he later concluded he had "no doubts" the rescue operation had been the best way to try to save the whale.

Pod spotted
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You can't leave a whale stranded in the Thames and we did the best we could," he added.
The whale, which could weigh about four tonnes, was first spotted at on Friday morning by a man on a train.

There were reports of a pod of whales in the Thames estuary earlier in the week, and it was possible that the whale had become separated from this group.

It was the first sighting of the endangered species in the Thames since records began nearly a century ago.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/4635874.stm

Dead whale is examined by experts

An expert is carrying out a post-mortem examination on a whale which died after becoming stranded in the River Thames.

spokeswoman for the Zoological Society of London said Mr Jepson was among the best qualified to carry out the post-mortem examination given his previous research work on stranded marine mammals.

It will be carried out at Gravesend in Kent where the whale was unloaded and take about six hours.

She added the results of the tests would be known on Wednesday or Thursday.
The whale, which could weigh about four tonnes, was first spotted at on Friday morning.

This is from Yahoo news.

Bottle-nosed whales normally live in the northern Atlantic, diving deeply and travelling in pods. They can reach eight metres long, the size of a red double-decker London bus.

When sick, old or injured, whales often get disoriented and swim away from their pod, said Mark Simmonds, science director at the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society.

Last week, marine officials said they saw two bottle-nosed whales in northeastern Scotland when the mammals are normally seen in northwestern Scotland.
That, coupled with the sighting Friday of a second whale in a different part of the Thames, could suggest that something is disrupting the whales, said Sadler.

There are many possible reasons whales become disoriented.
Scientists have said fluctuating ocean temperatures, predators, lack of food and even sonar from ships can send them into waters that threaten their survival.
"It's used to using acoustics to find its way around. What will happen is that the reflection from the noise from boats, from water lapping up around, will ring inside the whale's head," said Tony Martin, a senior scientist with the British Antarctic Survey."It's going to be very confused. It's already stranded twice. The poor creature doesn't know where to go."

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end of story for now.

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we are mammals also, you know.
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