ANIMAL BEHAVIOR & DISASTER PRECURSORS: "I've Never Seen Anything Like This Before" - Almost A THOUSAND Dolphins Gather In A "Super Pod" Off The Coast Of Vancouver, Canada?!

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: yellow;">November 05, 2013 - CANADA </span></b>- A super-sized pod of nearly 1,000 dolphins was spotted Thursday in western Canada's Strait of Georgia.<br /><br />The dolphin pack was captured on video by passengers on board a BC Ferries vessel traveling from Galiano Island to Tsawwassen.<br /><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gx5QfEXIR8M/UnlcZzpKrdI/AAAAAAABNGI/eipFok3MPNg/s1600/dolphinssuperpod01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gx5QfEXIR8M/UnlcZzpKrdI/AAAAAAABNGI/eipFok3MPNg/s1600/dolphinssuperpod01.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Exciting ride: A ferry boat traveling Canada's Strait of Georgia witnessed a large group of<br />almost 1,000 dolphins last Thursday. </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br />'I've never seen anything like this before,' Rob Maguire, the man who filmed the dolphins, told Global News. 'The last time I saw an orca or dolphin was more than 15 years ago.' <br /><br />The species of dolphins filmed yesterday was determined to be the Pacific white-sided dolphin, according to Dr Lance Barrett-Lennard, head of whale and dolphin research at Vancouver Aquarium.<br /><br />This species of dolphin is known to travel in large pods of 50 to 200 and as big as 2,000 but Dr Barrett-Lennard called their appearance in the Strait as a 'rare and unique occurrence'.<br /><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sUL9WcVvY6g/UnlcwxHfkfI/AAAAAAABNGM/gj2Fq3C2cos/s1600/dolphinssuperpod02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sUL9WcVvY6g/UnlcwxHfkfI/AAAAAAABNGM/gj2Fq3C2cos/s1600/dolphinssuperpod02.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Once in a lifetime: The dolphin pod was spotted in Canada's Strait of Georgia and BC Ferries <br />workers on the boat said they haven't seen anything like it.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br />Packs that big would normally be seen in coastal waters.<br /><br />Mr Maguire said he spoke with BC Ferries workers who said they'd never seen 'anything like this before'.<br /><br />After about three minutes, the dolphins disappeared out of sight and the experience changed the mood of the ride.<br /><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fv7n1bcemXk/Unlc-yPq5lI/AAAAAAABNGU/DYy1qEf5jNw/s1600/dolphinssuperpod03.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fv7n1bcemXk/Unlc-yPq5lI/AAAAAAABNGU/DYy1qEf5jNw/s1600/dolphinssuperpod03.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Rare and unique occurrence': A dolphin expert told Global News it was strange to see<br />such a large back in Sound waters.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br />'It was a pretty quiet ferry ride until the dolphins turned up because no one was really talking to one another,' Mr Maguire said. 'But afterwards everyone was abuzz, strangers were talking with strangers and getting to know one another.'<br /><br />Diane Williams was on the ferry and standing next to Mr Maguire when he took the video. She commented on the video when he posted it to YouTube.<br /><br /><br /><span style="color: lime;"><b>WATCH:</b></span> Tourists' delight at dolphin super-pod sighting. <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="321" src="https://www.youtube.com/v/YjYDFHQdiwc?showinfo=0&version=3" width="570"></iframe></div><br /><br />'Absolutely amazing,' she said. 'Moved me to tears. In 35 years of traveling to Mayne [Island] I have never seen such a sight before.' - <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2487400/Video-shows-moment-ferry-boat-encounters-rare-gathering-1-000-dolphins.html"><span style="color: orange;"><b>Daily Mail</b></span></a>.<br /><br /><br /></div>

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November 05, 2013 - CANADA - A super-sized pod of nearly 1,000 dolphins was spotted Thursday in western Canada's Strait of Georgia. The ...

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PLAGUES & PESTILENCES: Mysterious Disease - Six Hammerhead Sharks Suddenly Die In Ocean Park, Hong Kong, China?!

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: yellow;">November 05, 2013 - CHINA </span></b>- Six hammerhead sharks at Ocean Park died one by one in just seven hours yesterday because of a disease the park has not identified.<br /><br /><br /><div class="panel-pane pane-entity-field pane-node-body pos-1"><div class="pane-content"><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden clearfix"><div class="field-items"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8m6H6RbCevI/UnlJZeCDvzI/AAAAAAABNFI/4U8EKMpGMFE/s1600/chinasharks.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8m6H6RbCevI/UnlJZeCDvzI/AAAAAAABNFI/4U8EKMpGMFE/s1600/chinasharks.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The hammerhead shark is classified as endangered by conservationists. Photo: SCMP</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="field-item even first last"><br />The remaining eight sharks "were also at risk", the park said, and its staff would continue to closely monitor them, segregating them and administering treatment if the need arose. <br /><br />The dead sharks were first found "swimming abnormally" in the Grand Aquarium in the morning yesterday. They had shown no signs of illness before then, a spokeswoman said. Staff then moved them to a different area for treatment and observation, but from about 11am the sharks - all females weighing 45kg to 60kg - died one by one, until the last one perished at about 6pm. <br /><br />The park's chief veterinarian Paolo Martelli said the park was experiencing high morbidity - the rate of incidence of a disease - with rapid mortality in the hammerhead shark population. <br /><br />"We are now performing necropsies to better understand the cause of death," Martelli said, in a statement from the park issued yesterday evening. <br /><br />The six dead sharks - all about five years old - were among the 15 hammerheads introduced from Japan in late 2010. <br /><br />The park said that one had died already due to its inability to adjust to a new environment when it was moved into the Grand Aquarium in January 2011 from the old aquarium. But the other 14 "had doubled their weight and grown healthy over the past three years". <br /><br />Ocean Park's spokeswoman said it had reported the death to the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department immediately. A spokeswoman for the department said it would follow up with the park on the matter. <br /><br />Earlier this year Ocean Park was forced to deny that <a href="http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1249943/dolphins-too-stupid-suicide">dolphins kept there were trying to commit suicide</a> after a video emerged showing 14-year-old Indo-Pacific bottlenose Pinky slamming herself at the wall of a pool. <br /><br />According to Nimal Fernando, senior veterinarian at the park: "Dolphins can't really commit suicide. The mental ability to make a decision to kill yourself is beyond a dolphin's reasoning capability." <br /><br />Samuel Hung Ka-yiu, a marine conservationist, said the dead fish were scalloped hammerhead sharks, which were listed as an endangered species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. <br /><br />"We'd warned the park not to introduce endangered species into its captive environment, no matter whether they are blue fin tuna or hammerhead sharks," Hung said. "I hope the park will learn a lesson from such a saddening loss." <br /><br />Hung believes that the eight remaining hammerhead sharks are "in great danger", since the others died so suddenly. In June 2008, a sturgeon died at the park soon after being bitten by a barracuda kept in the same tank. Another sturgeon died six months later because of an infection induced by the poorly maintained tank water. - <a href="http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1346962/ocean-park-mystified-sudden-death-six-hammerhead-sharks"><span style="color: orange;"><b>SCMP</b></span></a>.<br /><br /><br /></div></div></div></div></div></div>

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November 05, 2013 - CHINA - Six hammerhead sharks at Ocean Park died one by one in just seven hours yesterday because of a disease the par...

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