Whale killed by tugboat, believed to be "Luna"

[gwilks98]

Roadkill generally depresses me, but this makes me very sad...
:neartears:
http://www.katu.com/outdoor/story.asp?ID=83996



Whale Killed By Tugboat Believed To Be Luna

GOLD RIVER, British Columbia - Canadian officials believe a killer whale struck and killed by a tugboat off Vancouver Island is Luna.
Luna, known to scientists as L-98, wandered away from the L pod in Washington state waters five years ago and stayed in Nootka Sound.

Apparently lonely, it would bump into boats and play in wakes.

The Canadian Fisheries Department says Luna was swimming under the 104-foot tugboat on Friday when it was hit by a propeller.

An attempt to move Luna back from Canada to U-S waters in 2004 was thwarted when Indian canoes lured it away.

In 2002, marine mammal experts had successfully had moved another lone orca, named A-73 or Springer, from Puget Sound back to her home pod in British Columbia.

[riskykougra]

Well I hope the people who sabotaged the move for their own selfish reasons are proud of themselves now.:disa:

[Yossarian]

*shrug* it sucks, but let the animal go where it will. if it wanders somewhere, natrual selection will determine the winner

[Markel]

This one rates along side the time all the press was out for the symbolic release of a "rescued" otter after the Exxon oil spill in Alaska. They all were filming as the otter swam out to sea...and was promptly swallowed by a killer whale (or some other animal).

[Houdini]

Heh. Orcas are the only known animals (besides humans) that kill merely for sport, or so I'm told.

[Tse How]

Heh. Orcas are the only known animals (besides humans) that kill merely for sport, or so I'm told.

i'm pretty sure that they don't, but they are one of the few that eat other animals in their...family? like, dolphins and stuff...regularly.

[Cheesypuff]

and dolphins are the only other animal who have sex for pleasure.

[eSDee]

This one rates along side the time all the press was out for the symbolic release of a "rescued" otter after the Exxon oil spill in Alaska. They all were filming as the otter swam out to sea...and was promptly swallowed by a killer whale (or some other animal).

I think that might be fake Markel:

http://www.snopes.com/humor/lists/fakenews.htm

At least Luna got to live a little while longer.

[zenbooty]

and dolphins are the only other animal who have sex for pleasure.
Not true I think. I'm pretty sure some primates are know to masturbate.

[Butch]

Not true I think. I'm pretty sure some primates are know to masturbate.

Apparently you've never been to see the monkeys at the Bronx Zoo . . . you'll know after that . . . they beat it like it's their job.

[Markel]

I think that might be fake Markel:

http://www.snopes.com/humor/lists/fakenews.htm

I hadn't checked the "myth" category on that story (I had just heard it from a friend.) I found this (http://tafkac.org/faq2k/animal_663.html) which classifies it as "disputed".

[eSDee]

I had heard it was true also, but just figured I would check snopes to be safe. I think there is a possibility that it was true. Let's hope! :)

[speedracer120]

Apparently you've never been to see the monkeys at the Bronx Zoo . . . you'll know after that . . . they beat it like it's their job.

Bonobo chimps are sex crazed, incestuously buggers. It's pretty freaking hilarious watching families pass by the bonobo exhibit at the San Diego Zoo.