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Why Are Hundreds of Dolphins Dead on Peruvian Beaches?
- Posted on February 11, 2012 at 6:45am by
Liz Klimas
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It’s a mystery. No one knows why more than 200 dolphins have washed up dead on beaches in Chiclayo, Peru.
ITN News reports that locals quickly scavenged the bodies along the 60-mile stretch of beach for meat, potentially making it harder to determine cause of death. Watch the report:
ITN News points out that officials have not yet ruled out the possibility that dolphins were hunted and calls this event “particularly unusual” as the seas close by are not a natural home for the mammals.
The Guardian reports samples of the dolphins are being studied by the Peruvian Sea Institute to try and determine cause of death. It also notes that dead anchovies were found on the scene, which could have poisoned the dolphins.
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Comments (88)
DevotedDad
Posted on February 11, 2012 at 2:48pmWhy is this stuff still being called a mystery?
Come on Blaze, if you are going to be an honest reporter, then cover EVERYTHING that might contribute to this stuff.
We have seen birds dying everywhere, Bees dying everywhere, dolphins dying everywhere, and all sorts of animals dying by the hundreds of thousands.
It is not global warming…
It is not Climate Change…
It is the crap that is being sprayed into the air all over the world..
You know, the massive Chemtrails that are poisoning the soil, the air, the water, and everything that lives on this Earth.
The Globalists and Environmentalist openly admit to doing this in the name of stopping the nonexistent Climate Change.
Wake up people, everything you are eating and breathing is being contaminated in the open.
But yet, it is a mystery why everything is dying and the most advanced nation in civilization is developing more cancers and disease than many third world countries.
Just do some research and type in CHEMTRAILS in Google and see for yourself what is transpiring.
http://theintelhub.com/2011/03/30/secret-presidential-chemtrail-budget-uncovered-exceeds-billions-to-spray-populations-like-roaches/
Report Post »pattybbb1
Posted on February 11, 2012 at 3:09pmYep. Or earthquake coming soon to that area.
Report Post »warhorse_03826
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 1:56amsad fact is all those dead animals happens ALL THE TIME. not long ago we weren’t that well connected so the story never really got out of the local area.
when I was a child some kid could get kidnapped a few towns away and you might hear about it in the paper a few days later. maybe. now you hear about it in half an hour and it’s all over every station and national news inside of an hour.
are there more animals dying like this? are there more kids being kidnapped?
no and no. you’re just HEARING about it more. that doesn‘t mean it’s happening more.
and this “chemtrails” thing has been around since the 60′s. suddenly it’s attached to “global warming” now? back then it was “global cooling” and was probably attached to that too. in fact it’s been attached somehow to every new fad that comes out. someone wants to keep the conspiracy theory alive by changing the details and putting it back out every few years. ask yourself WHY someone would do that. it’s so we keep chasing our own tails and not actually look at or fix any of the REAL problems! how much energy and time is WASTED by people on chemtrails, HAARP, tackomars (should I keep going? I’ve seen them all) that COULD have been used fixing the REAL PROBLEMS STARING US RIGHT IN THE FACE?
keep chasing your own tail. I’m rolling up my sleeves and will be fixing what needs fixing.
Report Post »tyuchic
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 6:26pmthis trolling is starting to get obnoxious
Report Post »biblegeek119
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 9:14pmThe Chemtrails are real and they are bad for us. Of course, like the Pharaoh likes people….but I digress
Like Beck always say “first they deny and then they said they are doing right in our face”.
That being said. I also believe that it is a sign of a big earthquake coming, not ‘in that area’ as another poster said, but it can be anywhere. Probably in the Northwest…where I live… lets wait and see.
Report Post »grannyrecipe
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 8:27amNo, no, no!…the dolphins finally got fed up with these giant fat-cat whales beaching themselves and getting all of the attention so they decided to join the occupy fad and created the “occupy the beach” movement. The crabs were said to be grinning from claw to claw as the dolphins were being consumed.
Report Post »grannyrecipe
Posted on February 13, 2012 at 8:36amEither that or some whale cut a an awful, awful fart off the coast of Galapagos from eating some bad krill (after which the whale gently apologized) The thing so, so stinky that the dolphins only conclusion was that life had no meaning.
Yeah, now that I think about it, that’s probably what happened.
Report Post »TexBork
Posted on February 11, 2012 at 2:04pmThe Dolphins are making a political statement I’m sure.
Report Post »2theADDLED
Posted on February 11, 2012 at 6:13pmThey sense the end is near all out nuclear war.
Report Post »TexBork
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 12:48pmIt has occurred to me that after starting the season 0 and 7 and then finished 6 and 10 in 42nd place in the NFL, I guess I can understand. The eye “pokey-outie” thing is kind of over the top though.
Report Post »notmeatglennbeckdotcom
Posted on February 11, 2012 at 1:31pmBecause they died and washed up on shore?
Report Post »BUDDY LITTLE
Posted on February 11, 2012 at 2:02pmIS it just me or has the Blaze reached the level of Tabloid ??def:”A news paper of small format,Presenting the news in condensed form,Often with sensational material”.. I might add the headlines offer the tease of an answer to entice you to put into your shopping cart??yet the substance is that of a …Twinkie??
Report Post »absolutelynot
Posted on February 11, 2012 at 2:02pmFreakin Frackin did this !!!!!
Report Post »TheVoice1
Posted on February 11, 2012 at 4:46pmNews just in from the White House… it was Bush’s fault !!!!!!!!
Report Post »2theADDLED
Posted on February 11, 2012 at 9:26pm@ BUDDY LITTLE
Report Post »I posed that question on another post seems since Glenn moved to Texas the mice are playing and not doing their homework and just grabbed the Sun or other tabloid at the checkout line.
spirit of freedom
Posted on February 11, 2012 at 1:09pmmy apologys m delta,
Report Post »i found your other posts! lol. very good! very good indeed.
sjohn70037
Posted on February 11, 2012 at 1:08pmGlobal warming. No, George Bush did it. No, it’s big oil. No,…
Report Post »BHAMCONSERVATIVE
Posted on February 11, 2012 at 1:06pmNo Joran van der Sloot jokes? Too soon?
Report Post »Maximus_Delta
Posted on February 11, 2012 at 12:50pmthey are on the beach because they are dead… end of subject….
Report Post »tiredofprogressives
Posted on February 11, 2012 at 12:44pmIt‘s Obamanoid’s policies that are creating havoc even in the oceans of the world.
Report Post »johnpaulkuchtajr
Posted on February 11, 2012 at 3:18pmObammie told us that the oceans would quit rising when he was elected!
Dolphins need rising oceans, ergo, Obammie done ‘em in!
Class dismissed.
Report Post »Link8on
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 10:12pmIts 2012 in the Mayan Dolphin prophesy calendar .
Maybe another big earthquake will hit soon.
Last year, Mike Savage had a guest who related strange animal deaths as a potential predictor to upcoming dramatic geologic events in the globe. That whole guest segment covered aquatic animal deaths and a woman who moved from the west coast to VA to avoid severe headaches.
There was one leading up to the Tsunami in Japan somewhere in the Pacific.
after that episode
Another fish death in CA was less than 1 wk before the recent New Zealand quake.
Report Post »Link8on
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 10:44pmThat same guest on the Mike Savage show also researched Bay area newspaper ads for missing pets and says the ad count usually triples about a wk or 2 ahead of an area quake.
Report Post »Hiswill
Posted on February 11, 2012 at 12:43pmWe are killing the oceans with our pollution and trash. Once the oceans die, we will follow.
Report Post »Maximus_Delta
Posted on February 11, 2012 at 12:54pmI suggest that you stop using products made by humans, build yourself a outhouse, turn off the electricity to your home, do not use a vehicle with a combustible engine, chisel messages on stone tablets or use ink from plants and write on parchment made from animal skins or cotton made into parchment, etc. you get the point…
Report Post »spirit of freedom
Posted on February 11, 2012 at 1:07pm@ maximus delta,
Report Post »no we wont just you because YOU are “suceptable” . with your lessoned brain activity. how did you find the time to post on here with your arms wrapped around that tree?
MCDAVE
Posted on February 11, 2012 at 5:27pmmaybe they just got sick and died ,,I have seen this happen in over populated deer herds..Dolphins like deer gather in groups and one sick animal can infect many others..Mother nature balances ,but sometimes with dramatic population crashes..
Report Post »liberalescheisskopf
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 2:33pmDolphins taste like tuna……
Report Post »Abel22
Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:42amPlanet X is on its way, more things like this will happen. Or it is like when God dropped the manna.
Report Post »JethroUSMC
Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:36amCocaine no doubt.
Report Post »last frontier
Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:26amHow about a high powered crude hand me down sonar on a Iranian sub trying impress some generals on board from Venezuela.
Report Post »spigot
Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:36amSimultaneously conducting tests off the coast of Massachusetts and Peru?
Report Post »spigot
Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:24amLink to Cape Cod Times article on dolphin stranding http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120206/NEWS11/120209841/-1/NEWS0 Coincidence? Sonar? Fishermen? I think all unlikely. Most likely is that most marine mammals are believed to navigate utilizing magnetic fields. Imagine the confusion that would come from having your balance or vision totally scrambled. Now what has happened recently to wreak havoc with magnetic fields? Recent solar Sun flares.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on February 11, 2012 at 3:29pmSun flares, Hmn. I find that to be a reasonable hypothesis
Report Post »jungle J
Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:21amBecause Marines peed on a corpse.
Report Post »DD313
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 2:28amThat’s called “we spray the corpse.”
Report Post »DD313
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 4:20pmOr maybe “We spritZ de corpsE”.
Report Post »qzak491
Posted on February 11, 2012 at 10:55amThey probably died in fishermans nets and were thown overboard when halled on deck???
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on February 11, 2012 at 10:58amI don’t see any scratches or net marks on the skin. I’ve seen this in other places. I don’t know what causes it..
Report Post »Msgt Ret
Posted on February 11, 2012 at 3:21pmdeath causes it!
Report Post »Stevsea
Posted on February 11, 2012 at 10:15amGulf Oil Spill. Open up a map to see Peru’s proximity to the Gulf of Mexico. Not too far fetched of a theory whether it was the anchovies that were poisoned first and the dolphins ate them, or the dolphins were directly poisoned from the water (oil, corexit, etc.)
Report Post »The Woot
Posted on February 11, 2012 at 10:21amGuess all that oil migrated through the Panama Canal then, huh?
Report Post »TexasCommonSense
Posted on February 11, 2012 at 10:45amThe Woot, LoL. Looks like geographical logic escaped Stevsea.
Report Post »Stevsea
Posted on February 11, 2012 at 10:46am@The Woot…No I’m not saying that but the corexit in the water could have and there is the possibility that dolphins and schools of forage fish do know how to swim from one location to another. Dolphins are pelagic animals meaning their presence is worldwide and do migrate to warmer waters when their current location doesn’t fit their comfort zone.
Report Post »fishfool
Posted on February 11, 2012 at 10:46amI work less then 200 miles from the spill and the Dolphin population here is healthy as always. They are now trying to say the fish are getting lesions related to the spill in my area. The lesions the fish have are the same I have been seeing for years before the spill. But Blame BP that seems to be the answer to every problem in the Gulf now.
Report Post »The Woot
Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:31pmNow you’re saying all those Dolphins must have migrated through the canal?
Report Post »Stevsea
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 1:05pm@THE WOOT…What I’m saying is the corexit will drift with the tides hundreds of miles. The dolphins could have been exposed anywhere the corexit was and ingested it. That poison doesn’t necessarily kill the dolphins overnight and can take a while to have maximum effect. Dolphins, whales, sharks and other pelagics can make quick work out of traveling great distances (yes, even completely around the continent of South America.) In conclusion, the dolphins could have been affected in one place, and died from it in another. They could have been poisoned off of New Jersey and died off of Peru.
Report Post »Atokaite
Posted on February 11, 2012 at 10:12amDolphin deaths usually are attributable to feed problems.
Report Post »The Dead Anchovies are a key.
Fish follow food sources. This may well be an anomoly, but the Peruvian Institute will come up with the answer.
Worth following this, as there are multiple such occurrences across the globe.
2012 is the year for following Disasters, Severe wx and the vagaries of mankind.
Semper Fi
asybot12
Posted on February 11, 2012 at 12:55pmYou make a good point . also I know massive upwelling of cold or warm waters can cause havoc along those coasts to especially anchovies, very steep shore lines and quick and large changes in the local water environment ( El Nino and La Nina ocean currents as an example). There are also continuous earth quakes and under water slides along all of the SA Pacific coast.
Report Post »DD313
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 2:59amBut I LIKE anchovies. Their death may be the real story here.s
Report Post »macpappy
Posted on February 11, 2012 at 10:07amDEA dumped all the confiscated Peruvian cocaine into the sea.
Report Post »The little guys are just trying to re-up.
Link8on
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 11:11pmTo the dolphins:
Report Post »Whitney Houston will always love you
DeepintheHeart
Posted on February 11, 2012 at 10:03amAnswer to the headline: all the beaches on Hawaii were too crowded
Report Post »Andy Cooper
Posted on February 11, 2012 at 9:37amWhy are the dolphins dead? Because they were on land. Thank you, your a great crowd.
Report Post »Maybe they were trying to evolve. Waka waka!
Maybe they bet it all on the Pats to win the superbowl. Hoo-ah!
Maybe their wives wouldn’t shut up. OHHH!
Andy Cooper
Posted on February 11, 2012 at 9:39amLast one. They think it’s funny when liberals cry. THAT IS DEVOTION TO A JOKE!
Report Post »Andy Cooper
Posted on February 11, 2012 at 9:42amOne more. They think it’s funny when liberals cry. NOW THAT’S DEVOTION TO A JOKE!
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on February 11, 2012 at 9:45amThey are escaping from ManBearPig infested waters?
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on February 11, 2012 at 9:46amThey got kicked out of “school”??
Report Post »HorseCrazy
Posted on February 11, 2012 at 12:52pmha ha thanks for the laugh
Report Post »JP4JOY
Posted on February 11, 2012 at 9:04amCould have been a sub or ship sonar too close to them. Acoustic pings in the megawatt range are deadly and there is that trench that runs along the entire western side of north and south america. usually they try to not ping hard unless they are confident of sea life not in close proximity but mistakes are made.
Report Post »SamIamTwo
Posted on February 11, 2012 at 9:01amTypically they do this when they are sick…
Report Post »bikerr
Posted on February 11, 2012 at 8:34amMost sea creatures get there water from what they eat. I watched a diagnosis of the death of a beached whale and it had died from dehydration. Easier explained by the lack of food from which it gets it’s water. Seems strange to be around all that water and die from dehydration but that’s what probably happened here.
Report Post »ashestoashes
Posted on February 11, 2012 at 9:08amRemember last year at about this time..an unusual event happened on California when hundreds or thousands of dead fish washed up on the beach. then just a few days later there was that Fukashima or whatever..the Japanaese nuclear reactor meltdown.? Unusual coincidence don’t you think..How much of the sea life is getting poisoned by that reactor? Revelations reads that in the last days..the bowls will be poured out and that there will be no more life in the sea…Also think about the hundreds of birds that have been dying in masses..
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on February 11, 2012 at 8:11amMaybe God knew the people were hungry…He sent a seafood meal. So what?
It will give the enviromental wackos something to do besides be here in the USA for a while…
Report Post »FToth84
Posted on February 11, 2012 at 7:48amUmmmm… The Rapture anyone?
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on February 11, 2012 at 8:21amYeah that sounds about right, because animals come to the Lord’s Feast also, because the bottoms up the seas where the souls are taken must be made deeper so that the wicked never escape again.
Report Post »SamIamTwo
Posted on February 11, 2012 at 9:00amObamaCare in teh making!
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