HEROIC HUMPBACK WHALES SAVE DESPERATE SEAL FROM THE JAWS OF KILLER WHALES - Rescuing their own babies and other species from killer whales is common among humpback whales

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By Erik StokstadJul. Science Magazine 

Humpback whales, like the one in the foreground, will charge killer whales that are attacking other marine mammals.
 

At first it seemed like the usual, deviously clever attack. Several killer whales were trying to catch a Weddell seal that had taken refuge atop a drifting patch of Antarctic ice. The orcas swam alongside each other, creating a wave that knocked the hapless pinniped into the water. Death seemed certain.

Then something amazing happened: A pair of humpback whales turned up. As the panicked seal swam toward them, a lucky wave tossed it onto the chest of the closer, upturned whale.
 

The whale arched its chest out of the water, which kept the seal away from the charging killer whales. And when the seal started to fall off, the whale carefully pushed it back onto its chest with a flipper. Soon after that, the seal scrambled to safety on another ice floe.

 A Weddell seal's natural smile

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HUMPBACK WHALES - THE BEAUTIFUL GIANTS OF THE DEEP IN STUNNING PICTURES

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Underwater photographer Gabriel Barathieu, 32, took these shots in an encounter lasting 25 minutes, off the coast of Reunion Island which is owned by France.  

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RESCUERS SAVE JUVENILE WHALE TRAPPED IN FISHING EQUIPMENT - The fishing industry is plundering the seas and leaving nets and other items that are killing the creatures they leave behind

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The heartwarming moment a rescue team save the life of a baby humpback whale after it was trapped in fishing equipment

The nine-metre long juvenile Humpback whale was spotted near Wellington

A specialist whale rescue team was escorted by police to the trapped whale

Entanglement in fishing gear kills large numbers of humpbacks worldwide

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RESOURCEFUL SEAL ESCAPES BEING EATEN BY KILLER WHALES BY JUMPING ONTO A FAMILY DHINGY - WATCH VIDEO

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Nerve-wracking footage begins with the seal hiding out in the family dinghy

Camera pans around to reveal at least three killer whales are tracking him

The sympathetic American holidaymakers debate how to help the seal

Killer whales are well-known for their brutally efficient group hunt tactics

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DESPERATE WHALE ASKS FISHERMEN FOR HELP after getting plastic bag caught in his mouth - Watch VIDEO of fisherman providing help. - It happened off the coast of SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA

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A whale surprised a group of fishermen north of Sydney

The whale appeared to be asking for help as he swam closely to their boats

One of the men removed fishing lines and rubbish bags out of his mouth

Another fisherman took selfies at the same time 

The whale apparently showed his appreciation by flapping his fin

 

 

A group of young fishermen have captured an incredible selfie with a whale after it swam up and seemed to ask them for help removing plastic bags caught in its mouth.

 

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FAROE ISLANDS SADISTIC BLOOD ORGY AS INHABITANTS TRAP AND GLEEFULLY HACK AND STAB HUNDREDS OF WHALES TO DEATH FOR FUN - This savagery takes place every year in civilized Europe - Faroe Islands are located between Norway and Iceland, and are part of the Kingdom of Denmark

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Slaughter turns the sea red with blood: Horrifying scenes as fishermen chase 250 whales onto a beach in the Faroe Islands and locals leap into the water with glee to stab them to death.

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT

The brutal slaughtering of pilots whales took place at Bøur and Tórshavn in the Faroe Islands

Locals dressed in wetsuits wade into the water, and use knifes and harpoons to hack all the whales to death

Close footage shows some of the huntsmen laughing and smiling, droplets of blood dripping down from their sweaty brows. 

Danish Navy ships were nearby to protect the massacre operation from protesters of the Sea Shepherd Society as evidence of Denmark's collaboration with this inhumane act.

Although whaling is illegal in Denmark, the annual hunt, known as the grindadráp, is allowed in the Faroe Islands

The Faroes Islands are an independent country within the kingdom of Denmark.

The annual fun of massacring whales.  Faroes Islands inhabitants enjoy their much awaited orgy of cruelty and violence against defenseless and innocent animals.

Their bodies lie beached on the dark shore, large slash marks penetrate the neck and sides of the whale as the blood mixes with the cold water.

 

Known as the grindadráp, the brutal slaughtering of pilots whales in the Danish owned Faroe Islands took place on July 23.

 

As many as 250 whales were reportedly massacred on two beaches in Bøur and Tórshavn as locals used harpoons and knifes to hack the all of the pilot whales to death.

 

Northern Europeans, all of them.  This is not happening in some place away from civilization, or because of a religious ritual excuse. 

This is done by Europeans for the sheer SADISTIC fun of making captured animals suffer by killing them in the most gruesome manner.  

Shame!  Shame on all of them, the perpetrators and the spectators.  And shame on Denmark for condoning and protecting this brutal yearly massacre of animals that never hurt anyone. 

 

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ASTOUNDING PICTURES OF MOTHER HUMPBACK WHALE AND HER CALF

Photographer uses drone to capture amazing footage of protective mother humpback whale and her calf off remote Tongan island.

Darren Rice films humpback whales in waters off Foa in the Kingdom of Tonga with a flying drone camera

The British cameraman, who now runs a dive resort, takes the incredible footage mostly for research purposes

Video and stills feature a mother and a calf bonding, along with images of males vying to mate with a female whale

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PLAYFUL HUMPBACK WHALE SOAKS BOAT FULL OF WHALE WATCHERS

This is the moment when a playful humpback breached out of the water and splashed down a whole boatload of whale watchers.  The whale made a sensational jump out of the water, and continued to entertain the passengers of a watchers' boat for the next hour, photographer Jodi Frediani, 65, from California, said.  The fascinating moment in nature was captured on camera off the coast of Monterey Bay, California.    
 

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THE HUMPBACK WHALE WHO THOUGHT HE COULD FLY - Photographer captures him leaping out of the water

Marine tour guide Steven Benjamin captured the spectacular sight while whale-spotting off the coast of South Africa.  The 31-year-old was 'blown away' by the humpback, which disappeared for 20 minutes before leaping from the water.  The majestic animal even 'waved' his fin at the stunned onlookers in a rare close encounter with the huge creatures

DENMARK ACCUSED OF HELPING FAROE ISLANDS BLOOD ORGY OF FISHERMEN MASSACRING WHALES FOR FUN - They say it's "tradition". Whales screaming in agony while witnesses laughed and cheered

2014:  Butchered on the beach: Whales heard 'screaming in agony' as 33 were slaughtered while witnesses 'laughed and cheered'  

Brutal: A disturbing sight as a young girl rides a slain pilot whale at the scene of the brutal mass slaughter of 33 whales on the Faroe Island of Sandoy on Saturday where families flocked to join the annual ritual.

 

Australian woman Krystal Keynes has been arrested in the Faroe Islands

14 anti-whale activists were arrested, reportedly by Danish & Faroese police

The group unsuccessfully tried to prevent the mass slaughter of 33 whales

Witnesses say that the whales were heard 'screaming in agony' 

'Men, women and children flocked to the beach, laughing and cheering'

A boat donated by American actor Charlie Sheen has been illegally seized

Sheen releases statement to Sea Shepherd about his anger and disgust

Founder of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society accuses Denmark of assisting the whale slaughter

READ 2015 SLAUGHTER UPDATE - http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2015/07/faroe-islands-sadistic-blood-orgy-as.html

LARGE NUMBERS OF WHALES, DOLPHINS AND OTHER MARINE LIFE KILLED AND INJURED BY U.S. SONAR AND WEAPONS TESTING

The United States reports these tests. There are many other nations that keep them secret.  So this massive attack on ocean life is much greater than reported.

 

ACTIVIST POST - Not only have whales been showing up dead with dozens of pounds of toxic, plastic waste inside their stomachs, the U.S Navy plans to raise the death toll by conducting underwater testing of explosive weapons and sonar devices. Tests will be and are taking place in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, including the Gulf of Mexico.

According to Greenpeace, government estimates are calculated at 138,500 whales and dolphins will be injured or killed. 

 

These events are set to commence and take place from 2014 through 2019. The title is not an exaggeration, depending on the vicinity of the animals, detonating these explosives underwatermwill kill whales and dolphins and injure many, according to two environmental impact statements released by the military.

Keep in mind, these events have been occurring for a number of years, and are responsible for the death of large amounts of marine life. The Navy is not denying these facts. They have admitted that most of the deaths would come from detonation of explosives, sonar testing or animals being hit by ships. Although I do not trust Navy estimates, according to their computer models this activity could kill hundreds of whales. The Navy said it developed the estimates by totaling the hours it will test and practice with sonar, torpedoes, missiles, explosives and other equipment for five years. This testing will be (and already has been) responsible for the death of thousands. 

Take action by sending an email to The Honorable Charles T. Hagel, U.S. Secretary of Defense. You can email him at charles.t.hagel.mil@mail.mil. Feel free to use this sample letter provided by PETA.

  

There are also corporate interests here, exploration companies are allowed to use dangerous blasts of noise to search for offshore oil and gas. The U.S. Department of the Interior is considering allowing geophysical companies that work for the oil and gas corporations to use these techniques in the Atlantic Ocean, from Delaware to Florida.

There are no noise-cancelling headphones to stop the U.S. Navy’s 235-decibel pressure waves of unbearable pinging and metallic shrieking. At 200Db, the vibrations can rupture your lungs, and above 210 Db, the lethal noise can bore straight through your brain until it hemorrhages that delicate tissue. If you’re not deaf after this devastating sonar blast, you’re dead. This is the real life of marine mammals destroyed by the U.S. Navy’s all-out acoustic war on the world’s oceans. The collateral damage of this high intensity military sonar is shocking. But because all these millions of dying whales or dolphins are too often out of human sight, they’re also out of mind. (8)

Just like Orca researcher Ken Balcomb calls it, this is “acoustic holocaust.”
 
Scientific American calls military sonar a brutal and inhumane death sentence.

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http://www.activistpost.com/2014/02/us-navy-killing-marine-life-with-sonar.html

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HEARTBREAKING SLAUGHTER OF WHALES AND DOLPHINS BY JAPANESE FISHERMEN - THEN THEY RAM ACTIVISTS' VESSEL

Watch dramatic video of Japanese whaling ship ramming protestors' boat the Sea Sheperd in the South Pole after 'heartbreaking' whale slaughter

• Dramatic video of Japanese whalers ramming boats off South Pole
• Conservationists risk lives in icy waters to prevent slaughter
• Protestors patrol earth's last pristine ocean to stop whale kill
• Japanese claim killing whales is only 'scientific research
• 'Sea captains tell of Japanese ships' eight hour attack
• Volunteers tell of 'heartbreaking' scenes of dolphin killing

Sea Shepherd claims the collision was deliberate and part of a sustained attack by three whaling ships on the protestors.  In Sunday's attack, which continued until 9am, the harpoon vessels overtook the Sea Shepherd ships, crossing their bows and coming within three to five metres in numerous "dangerous manoeuvres", Sea Shepherd claimed. 

 

It said the Yushin Maru 3 struck the Bob Barker and quoted the ship's captain, Peter Hammarstedt, and  Siddarth Chakravarty of the Steve Irwin saying the two ships on several occasions had to steer out of the harpoon whalers' paths, narrowly avoiding potential collisions.  "The whaling vessels also made consecutive attempts to foul the propellers of the Sea Shepherd ships by dragging steel cable across the bow of the conservation ships."

Read more and see photographs of the confrontation.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2550690/Dramatic-video-Japanese-harpoon-whaling-ship-ramming-conservationist-vessels-South-Pole-heartbreaking-whale-slaughter.html

More on the Japanese massacre of dolphins
http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2014/01/another-massacre-of-dolphins-by.html

Japanese are not the only ones engaging in this gory massacre of cetaceans - Europeans do too
http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2013/12/faroe-island-annual-blood-orgy-as-they.html

Video of humans slashing helpless dolphins in a sea turned red
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gydea-nUzFw

 

Many ask whether the human race - that inflicts so much suffering on other creatures and so much mayhem on planet Earth - deserves to be saved from the many threats looming over their survival today.

 

David Attenborough:  HUMANS ARE A PLAGUE ON EARTH

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/9815862/Humans-are-plague-on-Earth-Attenborough.html

http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2013/09/david-attemborough-says-humans-are.html

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JAPAN ACCUSED OF CONTINUING TO KILL WHALES, INCLUDING THOSE IN SANCTUARY

 

Japanese whaling fleet kills minke whales in Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary, Sea Shepherd says

 

ABC Australia - The Australian government is facing fresh calls to monitor whaling in the Southern Ocean after footage released by activists shows Japanese whalers have made a successful start to this season's hunt.

 

Anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd says its three boats found all five ships from the Japanese whaling fleet, one with four dead minke whales onboard.Sea Shepherd says the Japanese fleet was in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary and that the activist group was working to drive the fleet from the area.

 

It is the first time the environmentalists and the whaling fleet have crossed paths this season.Environment Minister Greg Hunt last month said the Government would send a plane to monitor the fleet, despite promises before the election to send a ship.

Read more - http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-01-06/sea-shephard-says-japan-whaling-fleet-inside-sanctuary/5185942


PICTURES

Article and pictures of the Japanese ship where they process whales that are massacred inside a whale sanctuary

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2534478/Graphic-images-Japans-whaling-released-campaigners-Sea-Shepherd.html

RELATED

Japan continues to poison the oceans by with their Fukushima nuclear power plant highly radioactive discharge. 

Something is killing  all life in the Pacific Ocean - http://www.activistpost.com/2013/10/something-is-killing-life-all-over.html

Park in Japan where they can swim with dolphins and then eat dolphin meat for lunch
 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2455754/Japan-open-water-park-watch-EAT-dolphins.html

The yearly bloody massacre of dolphins in Japan at the cove.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23380-new-japanese-method-for-killing-dolphins-is-inhumane.html#.UsrBeWEWLMw

Movie The Cove exposing the massacre of dolphins by Japan, related by Matt Damon - 4 minute video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzuSULcqgxQ



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