@sligococo staff preparing to bury whale at #streedagh pic.twitter.com/zRkb6qKVLs
— EileenMagnier (@EileenMagnier) April 4, 2019
This afternoon.
Streedagh, County Sligo.
Blubber Mmf.
Experts examine latest case of whale beaching in Sligo (RTÉ)
@sligococo staff preparing to bury whale at #streedagh pic.twitter.com/zRkb6qKVLs
— EileenMagnier (@EileenMagnier) April 4, 2019
This afternoon.
Streedagh, County Sligo.
Blubber Mmf.
Experts examine latest case of whale beaching in Sligo (RTÉ)
‘sup?
This morning.
Dollymount Strand, Dublin
TV Presenter Amanda Byram at the launch of Sky Ocean Rescue [a campaign to encourage people to reduce their single-use plastic use] with a giant plastic humpback whale named Poly . A survey has found that 85% of Irish people are concerned by Ireland’s plastic usage. What Sky has to do with any of this is a mystery that may never be solved.
Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland
Photographer Franco Banfi‘s shot of a pod of sperm whales at rest, hanging together motionless and vertical in the water.
The whales do this for about 6-24 minutes at a time, exhibiting signs of REM (dream) sleep, an activity that accounts for 7% of their life.
The phenomenon was accidentally discovered by a team of UK and Japanese researchers in 2008.
The Galway International Arts Festival Skywhale this evening.
A thing of terrifying, pendulously deca-boobed beauty
Pix via Susan O’Keefe
(H/T: cairotango)
Chris Lindsay tweetz:
DOE staff battling to save a young pilot whale at Portballintrae – sadly, it died – more on @bbcnewsline
The second whale to die on the North coast in the past week.
On Saturday, a stranded whale died in Cushendall.
*blubber*