Rare whale tracked leaving Bering Sea for Gulf of Alaska

[tabatha]

By DAN JOLING
The Associated Press

(01/24/11 14:49:48)

A highly endangered whale that spends summers in Russian waters has crossed from the Bering Sea into the Gulf of Alaska.

U.S. and Russian researchers have tracked the 13-year-old male western Pacific gray whale from the Bering Sea, through the Aleutian Islands into the Gulf of Alaska. Bruce Mate of Oregon State University's Marine Mammal Institute says the whale is on a route for western gray whales that has never before been documented.

Researchers have been tracking the whale since they tagged it off Russia's Sakhalin Island on Oct. 4.

Just 130 of the animals remain. They spend summers at the south end of the Sea of Okhotsk but little is known of their winter habits.


http://mmi.oregonstate.edu/Sakhalin2010

[ret5hd]

1. Maybe we can get those japanese whale research vessels out there!

Get some researchin' goin' on!

[tabatha]

2. Does ret5hd stand for retarded?

[Sinistrous]

3. Does Tabitha stand for Irony Impaired?

[tabatha]

4. You mispelled it.

Also, junk posts happen too frequently to take them as irony.

[Sinistrous]

5. I bet you are a laugh riot at a party, TabAtha.

[tabatha]

6. Yep, I have my twisted sense of humor.

[ret5hd]

7. Well, humor IS a word...maybe not the best word...but it is a noun,

so your use is syntactically correct.

I'm just not sure you know what it means.

on edit:
I think I can improve your sentence for you:
"Yep, I have my twisted panties."

[tabatha]

8. Yep, my panties were twisted into a knot/bunch

because there are some subjects worthy of humor, but this was not.

[ret5hd]

9. I believe if you re-examine my first post, it is obviously a jab at the...

ridiculous contention the japanese make regarding the nature of their whaling vessels.

Hardly a thing worthy of calling me "retarded", eh?

[OnlinePoker]

10. I take offense at the last word you used in your post. n/t