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Index of Subjects --_1b204f49-6ee1-4cdb-bb15-7d39a8fb2a9f_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Ian: Were any of these a long way from their known range? (There's a few I had n= ot heard of). Angus > From: I.A.McLaren@Dal.Ca > To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Pygmy Sperm Whale washes up in Halifax Harbour > Date: Sun=2C 22 Mar 2015 20:33:49 +0000 >=20 > All: >=20 > Can't add much=2C except to note that several have turned up on Sable Isl= and=2C viz=2C: >=20 > Ian McLaren > _________________________________________________________ > Zoe L. Lucas and Sascha K. Hooker. 2000. >=20 > Canadian Field-Naturalist 114: 45-61. >=20 > Abstract >=20 > This review compiles information on cetacean strandings on Sable Island= =2C off the coast of Nova Scotia. Two hundred and sixty-seven stranded ceta= ceans=2C in 102 events=2C were recorded between 1970 and 1998. Seventeen sp= ecies were represented: Blue Whale (1 single stranding)=2C Fin Whale (1 sin= gle stranding)=2C Minke Whale (3 single strandings)=2C Humpback Whale (4 si= ngle strandings)=2C Sperm Whale (8 strandings=2C 13 animals)=2C Pygmy Sperm= Whale (3 strandings=2C 4 animals)=2C Dwarf Sperm Whale (2 single stranding= s)=2C Northern Bottlenose Whale (3 single strandings)=2C Sowerby's Beaked W= hale (1 single stranding)=2C Killer Whale (1 single stranding)=2C Long-finn= ed Pilot Whale (37 strandings=2C 173+ animals)=2C White-beaked Dolphin (1 s= tranding=2C 2 animals)=2C Atlantic White-sided Dolphin (9 strandings=2C 13 = animals)=2C Risso's Dolphin (1 single stranding)=2C Striped Dolphin (8 stra= ndings=2C 22 animals)=2C Short-beaked Common Dolphin (4 strandings=2C 6 ani= mals)=2C Harbour Porpoise (11 strandings=2C 13 animals). The records of the= Dwarf Sperm Whale and that of the Risso's Dolphin are the first for easter= n Canada. The record of the Sowerby's Beaked Whale is the first reported st= randing in Nova Scotia. Humpback=2C Minke=2C and Killer Whales=2C and Short= -beaked Common Dolphins have not previously been recorded stranded on Sable= Island. The majority of stranding events (84) were of a single animal=3B n= ine involved two animals=3B eight involved 3-10 animals=3B and one event in= volved over 130 animals. Recorded strandings increased from 1.9 strandings/= year between 1970-1989 to 7.1 strandings/year between 1990-1998. Mass stran= dings of multiple male Sperm Whales have occurred three times (all since 19= 90). All Atlantic White-sided Dolphin strandings investigated were also com= prised of male animals.=20 >=20 > ______________________________________________________________ > ________________________________________ > From: naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca <naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca> on be= half of Fred Schueler <bckcdb@istar.ca> > Sent: March 21=2C 2015 11:16 AM > To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > Subject: RE: [NatureNS] Pygmy Sperm Whale washes up in Halifax Harbour >=20 > Quoting "Hebda=2C Andrew J" <Andrew.Hebda@novascotia.ca>: >=20 > > Piers=2C H. (1920). Accidental occurrence of the Pygmy Sperm Whale > > (Kogia breviceps) on the coast of Nova Scotia: An extension of its > > known range=3B with remarks on the probability of the former presence > > in these waters of the true Sperm Whale (Physeter macrocephalus). > > Proceedings and Transactions of the Nova Scotian Institute of > > Science=2C 15(2)=2C 95-114. >=20 > * an irrelevant bit of old verse: >=20 > The Sperm Whale's too big for a pet - > It needs a whole ocean - and yet > The Pygmy Sperm Whale can live in a pail > If the pail is the size of Tibet. >=20 > fred. > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Frederick W. Schueler & Aleta Karstad > Mudpuppy Night - http://pinicola.ca/mudpup1.htm > Vulnerable Watersheds - http://vulnerablewaters.blogspot.ca/ > study our books - http://pinicola.ca/books/index.htm > RR#2 Bishops Mills=2C Ontario=2C Canada K0G 1T0 > on the Smiths Falls Limestone Plain 44* 52'N 75* 42'W > (613)258-3107 <bckcdb at istar.ca> http://pinicola.ca/ > "[The] two fundamental steps of scientific thought - the conjecture > and refutation of Popper - have little place in the usual conception > of intelligence. If something is to be dismissed as inadequate=2C it is > surely not Darwin [=2C whose] works manifest the activity of a mind > seeking for wisdom=2C a value which conventional philosophy has largely > abandoned." Ghiselen=2C 1969. Triumph of the Darwinian Method=2C p 237. > ------------------------------------------------------------ >=20 >=20 = --_1b204f49-6ee1-4cdb-bb15-7d39a8fb2a9f_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html> <head> <style><!-- .hmmessage P { margin:0px=3B padding:0px } body.hmmessage { font-size: 12pt=3B font-family:Calibri } --></style></head> <body class=3D'hmmessage'><div dir=3D'ltr'>Hi Ian:<br>Were any of these a l= ong way from their known range? (There's a few I had not heard of).<br>Angu= s<br><br><div>>=3B From: I.A.McLaren@Dal.Ca<br>>=3B To: naturens@chebuc= to.ns.ca<br>>=3B Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Pygmy Sperm Whale washes up in H= alifax Harbour<br>>=3B Date: Sun=2C 22 Mar 2015 20:33:49 +0000<br>>=3B = <br>>=3B All:<br>>=3B <br>>=3B Can't add much=2C except to note that = several have turned up on Sable Island=2C viz=2C:<br>>=3B <br>>=3B Ian = McLaren<br>>=3B _________________________________________________________= <br>>=3B Zoe L. Lucas and Sascha K. Hooker. 2000.<br>>=3B <br>>=3B Ca= nadian Field-Naturalist 114: 45-61.<br>>=3B <br>>=3B Abstract<br>>=3B= <br>>=3B This review compiles information on cetacean strandings on Sabl= e Island=2C off the coast of Nova Scotia. Two hundred and sixty-seven stran= ded cetaceans=2C in 102 events=2C were recorded between 1970 and 1998. Seve= nteen species were represented: Blue Whale (1 single stranding)=2C Fin Whal= e (1 single stranding)=2C Minke Whale (3 single strandings)=2C Humpback Wha= le (4 single strandings)=2C Sperm Whale (8 strandings=2C 13 animals)=2C Pyg= my Sperm Whale (3 strandings=2C 4 animals)=2C Dwarf Sperm Whale (2 single s= trandings)=2C Northern Bottlenose Whale (3 single strandings)=2C Sowerby's = Beaked Whale (1 single stranding)=2C Killer Whale (1 single stranding)=2C L= ong-finned Pilot Whale (37 strandings=2C 173+ animals)=2C White-beaked Dolp= hin (1 stranding=2C 2 animals)=2C Atlantic White-sided Dolphin (9 stranding= s=2C 13 animals)=2C Risso's Dolphin (1 single stranding)=2C Striped Dolphin= (8 strandings=2C 22 animals)=2C Short-beaked Common Dolphin (4 strandings= =2C 6 animals)=2C Harbour Porpoise (11 strandings=2C 13 animals). The recor= ds of the Dwarf Sperm Whale and that of the Risso's Dolphin are the first f= or eastern Canada. The record of the Sowerby's Beaked Whale is the first re= ported stranding in Nova Scotia. Humpback=2C Minke=2C and Killer Whales=2C = and Short-beaked Common Dolphins have not previously been recorded stranded= on Sable Island. The majority of stranding events (84) were of a single an= imal=3B nine involved two animals=3B eight involved 3-10 animals=3B and one= event involved over 130 animals. Recorded strandings increased from 1.9 st= randings/year between 1970-1989 to 7.1 strandings/year between 1990-1998. M= ass strandings of multiple male Sperm Whales have occurred three times (all= since 1990). All Atlantic White-sided Dolphin strandings investigated were= also comprised of male animals. <br>>=3B <br>>=3B ____________________= __________________________________________<br>>=3B ______________________= __________________<br>>=3B From: naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca <=3Bnatu= rens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca>=3B on behalf of Fred Schueler <=3Bbckcdb@ist= ar.ca>=3B<br>>=3B Sent: March 21=2C 2015 11:16 AM<br>>=3B To: naturen= s@chebucto.ns.ca<br>>=3B Subject: RE: [NatureNS] Pygmy Sperm Whale washes= up in Halifax Harbour<br>>=3B <br>>=3B Quoting "Hebda=2C Andrew J" <= =3BAndrew.Hebda@novascotia.ca>=3B:<br>>=3B <br>>=3B >=3B Piers=2C H= . (1920). Accidental occurrence of the Pygmy Sperm Whale<br>>=3B >=3B (= Kogia breviceps) on the coast of Nova Scotia: An extension of its<br>>=3B= >=3B known range=3B with remarks on the probability of the former presen= ce<br>>=3B >=3B in these waters of the true Sperm Whale (Physeter macro= cephalus).<br>>=3B >=3B Proceedings and Transactions of the Nova Scotia= n Institute of<br>>=3B >=3B Science=2C 15(2)=2C 95-114.<br>>=3B <br>&= gt=3B * an irrelevant bit of old verse:<br>>=3B <br>>=3B The Sperm Whal= e's too big for a pet -<br>>=3B It needs a whole ocean - and yet<br>>= =3B The Pygmy Sperm Whale can live in a pail<br>>=3B If the pail is the s= ize of Tibet.<br>>=3B <br>>=3B fred.<br>>=3B ------------------------= ------------------------------------<br>>=3B Frederick W. Schu= eler &=3B Aleta Karstad<br>>=3B Mudpuppy Night - http://pinicol= a.ca/mudpup1.htm<br>>=3B Vulnerable Watersheds - http://vulnerablewaters.= blogspot.ca/<br>>=3B study our books - http://pinicola.ca/books/inde= x.htm<br>>=3B RR#2 Bishops Mills=2C Ontario=2C Canada K0G 1T0<= br>>=3B on the Smiths Falls Limestone Plain 44* 52'N 75* 42'W<br>>= =3B (613)258-3107 <=3Bbckcdb at istar.ca>=3B http://pinicola.ca/<b= r>>=3B "[The] two fundamental steps of scientific thought - the conjectur= e<br>>=3B and refutation of Popper - have little place in the usual conce= ption<br>>=3B of intelligence. If something is to be dismissed as inadequ= ate=2C it is<br>>=3B surely not Darwin [=2C whose] works manifest the act= ivity of a mind<br>>=3B seeking for wisdom=2C a value which conventional = philosophy has largely<br>>=3B abandoned." Ghiselen=2C 1969. Triumph of t= he Darwinian Method=2C p 237.<br>>=3B -----------------------------------= -------------------------<br>>=3B <br>>=3B <br></div> </div>= </body> </html>= --_1b204f49-6ee1-4cdb-bb15-7d39a8fb2a9f_--
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