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Posted: **Mon Feb 02, 2004 2:29 pm**

Don't know if this belongs in Animal Kingdom, i just found it quite amusing...
Article on BBC News

Posted: **Mon Feb 02, 2004 5:08 pm**

That is so gross. Can you imagine, one mnute you are seeing this giant whale going down the street the next minute bam :yuck: . Glad I was somewhere else.

Posted: **Mon Feb 02, 2004 8:55 pm**

Oh, those poor people that were standing there. 6_9 They must have gotten the surprise of their lives!

Posted: **Tue Feb 03, 2004 9:20 pm**

:yuck: That's so gross! More like something you see in a horror movie.

Posted: **Thu Feb 05, 2004 2:44 pm**

happened in Holland before... monkey sees monkey does.. typical taiwan

Posted: **Thu Feb 05, 2004 3:34 pm**

We had a Sperm Whale beached near where I live in the UK,second in a year.
I went to take a look last weekend,shame to see such a magnificent creature dead on the beach.

This one was sixty feet long!

Posted: **Thu Feb 05, 2004 6:45 pm**

We have regular whale watching tours here, but I certainly wouldn't want to watch a whale do THAT!

But seriously, wouldn't you think that a professor would have known to expect that something like that was possible to happen? Do yuo think they should have taken precautions? Do they make zip-lok bags that big?

Posted: **Thu Feb 05, 2004 10:01 pm**

I've heard that whales tend to have gas build up in them after they die and that this one should have had the pressure relived by cutting it open or something... don't know how true that is, but it's certainly possible... a lot of things give off gases when they begin to decompose...

Posted: **Fri Feb 06, 2004 11:59 am**

there just too fat to go on land again!
there weight pressures them and then they explode...
just like hamsters!

Whales used to walk on land but they ate so many fastfood.. MAN!

Posted: **Fri Feb 06, 2004 1:11 pm**

5 years ago
one sperm whale after another landed on our beaches
I went to see and rotting carcases really smell

Posted: **Fri Feb 06, 2004 3:18 pm**

well duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh
whales can't smell so they don't mind if they stink...
cool.. maybe I'll amputate my nose too!

Posted: **Sat Feb 07, 2004 5:41 am**

and put up a fake nose like Michael Jackson

Posted: **Sat Feb 07, 2004 7:03 am**

you call THAT a nose? :mellow:

Posted: **Sat Feb 07, 2004 12:12 pm**

not really
but at least you won't smell anything

Posted: **Sat Feb 07, 2004 1:06 pm**

but then I will sound like noodered hamster!

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