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Dolphin Rolled in Last Night
Here's today's sad event:
Dinner!
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Is it a Vaquita?
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Looks like everyone isn't sad?
Is that what is left after the autopsy, I'd recognise that nose anywhere, is that a glove on his flipper? He did look rather pasty at the end. It
never takes long for the vultures to circle does it? eh, hmm, er, looks like I may have joined them too, the vultures that is.
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What a sad picture!
I think I see a squarish hole near the tail, and another one just left of the seagull's head. Could this be the result of trawling or netting? How
do you think he died, Russ?
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That sucks i guess thats part of life.............
READY SET.....................
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Russ you live over there?
READY SET.....................
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Alas, poor Yorik, I knew him well.
The squarish holes could be the work of the vulture. The eyes are the first to go. Probably for the same reason that shari is attracted to them.
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Russ
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Now that the tide has mostly stopped moving the carcus around the vultures are doing their thing. I must have taken 30 pics of these guys on my
bulkhead waiting for the tide to recede.
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A face only a mother could love.... well maybe NOT!
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Russ
Now that the tide has mostly stopped moving the carcus around the vultures are doing their thing. I must have taken 30 pics of these guys on my
bulkhead waiting for the tide to recede. |
Shees! those vultures do quick work, Russ.
I see nary a piece of dolphin in that last photo.
nena
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[Edited on 6-30-2009 by Natalie Ann]
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It is sad, but now you will have a nice skeleton in your yard decor.
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Not! It's going to STINK very soon so tomorrow I'll try to send it out to sea. Besides, it's illegal to have their bones with out a permit. Everything
needs a permit!
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I'd love to catch a permit!
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Russ
A face only a mother could love.... well maybe NOT! |
Well, maybe YES! This mother loves it. Almost daily we talk about how much our Bronze Breasted Turkey poults resemble the turkey vultures of Baja.
We had two dolphins wash up on the beach in front of our place once. I buried them thinking that I would dig them up at a later date and have a
reconstruction party. I didn't take into consideration how much the beach changes with each season, so to this day I've never found those two
dolphins.
They will stink, but if you have a place high enough to put them where the wind will carry the stink off, then coat them with bleach and let the sun
and time take it's course. We have a few whale bones that have been bleaching out on our garage roof that are ready to be brought back down for yard
art.
A full dolphin skeleton would be very cool. Specially if you give it a baseball hat.
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she said baseball hat
Baja California can be a heaven or hell experience - often the determining factor is your AWARENESS in the moment.
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P<*)))>{,
It would be cool if the monitor in your image would be displaying the bajanomad page that displays the image.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Russ
Here's today's sad event:
This is probably a noobie questions, but what is up with the mouth of this dead dolphin? I'm just not "seeing" the picture. Is there a "lure" in the
dolphin's mouth? or is the dolphin jaw hacked away so what we see is the insides of the mouth...as referenced by the "research" comment? Something
about the head doesn't look right, and I'm guessing many know what it is.
I'm sorry to be so graphic, and so stupidly Noobie.... but I sincerely want to know.
Been looking at the pic since it was posted.
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Ann, you're not alone with your inquiry. Everyone that has gotten close to it notices the mutilation of its mouth. So my guess it it was caught in one
of the seiner nets and they hacked it up to remove it. There are hundreds (thousands) of dolphin out there and they eat what the seiners want. Guess
who's gonna win in any confrontation? I don't want to start bashing the seiners here. There are other threads on that.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Skipjack Joe
P<*)))>{,
It would be cool if the monitor in your image would be displaying the bajanomad page that displays the image.
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