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Index of Subjects --Boundary_(ID_vL3yGHaLStYPQ7SBGx51pA) Content-type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable People will take occasional bones if it is left out in the open. Non-=20= human scavengers will chew on the bones for their calcium content. I have been told that at the US Nat'l Museum they put whale skulls on =20= the roof and let nature clean then up for several years. The man in =20 charge told me that he once brought a rank skull of a pilot whale, =20 wrapped in burlap and paper, to Washington in a railway passenger =20 car. Soon after leaving the station, he had the whole car to himself! There must be some group (a university or museum) who would like this =20= skeleton. It should be buried in a porous soil (without too much =20 clay), preferably wrapped in some plastic which is perforated, but =20 which will make it easy to recover the bones when they are dug up, say =20= ten years later. Even whales have some small bones which can be lost =20= if one is not careful. Maybe the flippers could be put in mesh bags, =20= like those bags they use for raising mussels, only larger. You will need a permit, because it is illegal even to have a piece of =20= something which came from a whale That is to make sure that you =20 haven't been out a-whalin' in your spare time. =97Paul On Jul 7, 2008, at 5:12 PM, Randy Lauff wrote: > And hopefully, if a museum does recover it, they won't bury it in =20 > the lifeless depths like in PEI...what was it...20 years and there =20 > was still flesh on it (someone help with the details here)? There =20 > has got to be some Crown land somewhere distant from folks where the =20= > whale can be just laid on the surface...then you'll see the flesh =20 > disappear! > > Randy > > 2008/7/7 Laurie Murison <gmwhale@nbnet.nb.ca>: > I received an opinion from a marine mammalogist who has a tremendous =20= > amount of experience dissecting dead baleen whales. > > He feels that the whale that live stranded was a sei whale ... > Hopefully the New Brunswick Museum will be able to recover the =20 > skeleton for their collection. > > Laurie Murison > Grand Manan Whale & Seabird Research Station > 24 Route 776 > Grand Manan, NB Canada E5G 1A1 > 506 662 3804, Fax 506 662 9804 > http://www.gmwsrs.org > > > Randy > _________________________________ > RF Lauff > Way in the boonies of > Antigonish County, NS. --Boundary_(ID_vL3yGHaLStYPQ7SBGx51pA) Content-type: text/html; charset=WINDOWS-1252 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">People will take occasional = bones if it is left out in the open. Non-human scavengers will = chew on the bones for their calcium content.<div><br></div><div>I have = been told that at the US Nat'l Museum they put whale skulls on the roof = and let nature clean then up for several years. The man in charge = told me that he once brought a rank skull of a pilot whale, wrapped in = burlap and paper, to Washington in a railway passenger car. Soon = after leaving the station, he had the whole car to = himself!</div><div><br></div><div>There must be some group (a university = or museum) who would like this skeleton. It should be buried in a = porous soil (without too much clay), preferably wrapped in some plastic = which is perforated, but which will make it easy to recover the bones = when they are dug up, say ten years later. Even whales have some = small bones which can be lost if one is not careful. Maybe the = flippers could be put in mesh bags, like those bags they use for raising = mussels, only larger.</div><div><br></div><div>You will need a permit, = because it is illegal even to have a piece of something which came from = a whale That is to make sure that you haven't been out a-whalin' = in your spare = time.</div><div><br></div><div>=97Paul</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><= div>On Jul 7, 2008, at 5:12 PM, Randy Lauff wrote:</div><br = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type=3D"cite"><div>And = hopefully, if a museum does recover it, they won't bury it in the = lifeless depths like in PEI...what was it...20 years and there was still = flesh on it (someone help with the details here)? There has got to be = some Crown land somewhere distant from folks where the whale can be just = laid on the surface...then you'll see the flesh disappear!</div> = <div> </div> <div>Randy<br><br></div> <div = class=3D"gmail_quote">2008/7/7 Laurie Murison <<a = href=3D"mailto:gmwhale@nbnet.nb.ca">gmwhale@nbnet.nb.ca</a>>:<br> = <blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: = 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"> <div bgcolor=3D"#ffffff">= <div><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"2">I received an opinion from a = marine mammalogist who has a tremendous amount of experience dissecting = dead baleen whales.</font></div> <div><font face=3D"Arial" = size=3D"2"></font> </div> <div><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"2">He = feels that the whale that live stranded was a sei = whale ...</font> </div> <div><font face=3D"Arial" = size=3D"2">Hopefully the New Brunswick Museum will be able to recover = the skeleton for their collection.</font></div> <div><font face=3D"Arial" = size=3D"2"></font> </div> <div><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"2">Laurie= Murison<br>Grand Manan Whale & Seabird Research Station <br>24 = Route 776<br>Grand Manan, NB Canada E5G 1A1<br>506 662 3804, Fax = 506 662 9804<br><a href=3D"http://www.gmwsrs.org/" = target=3D"_blank">http://www.gmwsrs.org</a></font></div> = <div><br></div></div></blockquote></div> <div> </div> = <div>Randy<br>_________________________________<br>RF Lauff<br>Way in = the boonies of<br>Antigonish County, NS. = </div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>= --Boundary_(ID_vL3yGHaLStYPQ7SBGx51pA)--
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