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Reggie Smithers
 
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Default New boating pastime for Londoners? Whale watching on the Thames

thunder wrote:
On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 20:45:48 -0500, Harry Krause wrote:

wrote:
"Assessing the health of any animal from that distance is impossible,"
she said. "It's still breathing and still swimming."

Well, for a while it was....


What's important here is that they tried.


From a human perspective, but from the whale's perspective? Perhaps, he
was in the Thames do die in peace and couldn't understand why all those
Brits wouldn't leave him alone.


The theory I heard is that whales beach themselves because they are
sick. I know I wouldn't want to be dragged out of my sick bed when I
wasn't feeling good.

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