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<a href="../ A few years back, a decomposing small whale was left in a fenced enclosure in a clearing behind the house on the Mt Uniacke estate, near the original greenhouse site. Didn't smell too bad when I first encountered it. It would have had a hard time swimming there, so was part of some project to recover the skeleton, I vaguely recall -- there was a notice about this mounted next to the fencing. The whole set-up and skeleton had gone by last summer when we were up at the same clearing catching froghoppers, so it was presumably a successful endeavour. I don't remember who organized the Mt. U. whale de-fleshing, but this info might be relevant to the apparent desire to recover the present specimen and skeletonize it: perhaps someone else on NNS will have superior recollection or information. Steve Quoting Laurie Murison <gmwhale@nbnet.nb.ca>: > We do have a facility on Grand Manan in conjunction with the NB > Museum for whale bones but it is in the provincial park campground > where bones are left on the surface covered in straw or wood shavings > to decompose and degrease. They don't appreciate fresh carcasses, > however, even after they have been covered in straw, because of the > smell. It is fenced so no one walks away with souvenirs. Some of the > flesh that was on a fin whale skeleton put in the compound in October > 2003 has dried to very stiff "jerky". Even with landscaping fabric > down, the blackberry bushes and grasses grow quickly and need to be > kept trimmed. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Randy Lauff > To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > Cc: NATURENB@listserv.unb.ca > Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 6:12 PM > Subject: Re: [NatureNS] sei (most likely) or finner > > > 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! > > Randy > > > 2008/7/7 Laurie Murison <gmwhale@nbnet.nb.ca>: > > I received an opinion from a marine mammalogist who has a > tremendous 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 > 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.
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