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  1. Farnboro John

    Pilot Whale Mass Stranding

    I wasn't suggesting the Russians invented it, but it's not unthinkable that they would exploit an opportunity to cause trouble. John
  2. Farnboro John

    Pilot Whale Mass Stranding

    Since kidneys are not part of the acoustic organs and it would be challenging to establish cause and effect, plus there are findings of gas bubble associated lesions in other tissues, it sounds like whales are capable of exceeding their own capacities. Also the sentence I have highlighted does...
  3. Farnboro John

    Pilot Whale Mass Stranding

    But since many (most?) mass stranding events occur in the waters of e.g. New Zealand which is famous for not operating anything effective and banning transit by any nuclear vessels e.g. submarines - which are the ones with the big sonars - it is evident that Pilot Whales will mass strand without...
  4. Farnboro John

    Pilot Whale Mass Stranding

    Yes. Right back into the fossil record. It's not a human produced problem and if it had been then WWI and WWII with their huge convoy battles and consequent torpedo and depth charge explosions all over the Atlantic would have seen incidents rocket. Not only that but every ship from trawler to...
  5. Farnboro John

    Pilot Whale Mass Stranding

    I think we need much more research and analysis to understand the mechanism let alone the cost/benefit aspects. Why do Pilot Whales do this and not other podding species (or do they?) Is it always Long-finned Pilot Whales or do Short-finned do the same thing? What about Orcas, or super-pods of...
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