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Politics : Sioux Nation
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To: SiouxPal who wrote (270989)5/8/2015 6:01:44 AM
From: T L Comiskey   of 362083
 
The Beat goes on...

For Blue wales....the learning curve is Steep

The largest animal that’s ever lived, at more than 100 feet long and 320,000 pounds, the blue whale for 30 million years never had to move out of anything’s way.“The main point for me is that these are animals supremely adapted to surviving

in a challenging marine environment,

and fast, large ships is something they have not had to deal with or are evolved to deal with,” said Megan McKenna, a coauthor of the study and a researcher with the National Park Service in Fort Collins, Colorado.

“There is little opportunity for an animal to learn about this threat, since a ship strike will often be fatal.”
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