Click on the dolphin story on the bbc news site for a video clip ... it's lovely to see so many dolphins swimming at the same time - I've never seen video footage like it before:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/

BBC says

[Edited 8/15/05 14:10pm]
[Edited 8/15/05 23:47pm]

Who counted them?

2the9s said:

I counted them whislt beating up a giant squid with my pinkys underwater.

Original title said:

2the9s said:

I'm changing the title, just for you

Seeing dolphin swimming alongside your boat is an amazing experience... I would have been in heaven if 2000 of them were swimming by...just imagine how incredible that would have looked...

do they make good kebabs?

KebabKing said:

not literally dolphins making kebabs but putting them in pitta bread

KebabKing said:

No, I don't think dolphins have the dexterity in their fins to fill pita bread with cooked meats...

Byron said:

i get my wives to do the donkey work

dolphins!

dolphins

Reincarnate said:

Much better.

Though who approximated?

I WANNA MOVE BACK TO WALES!



Of course they're off the coast of Wales. It's one of the most beautiful places they could be...

ok why does this disturb me. I love dolphins...don't get me wrong. But why so many.

I wonder is any other strange phenomenons will happen in the next feww days.

this is quite strange.

superspaceboy said:

Like somebody listening to your radio show?

Nah, I wouldn't sweat it.

superspaceboy said:

I also get the heebie-jeebies when animals do strange things like this. I feel like they have some sort of secret sense, and when something is about to go wrong, they start acting up.

superspaceboy said:

I would worry if they were singing,"Thanks for the fish"


Seriously, it is weird, makes one wonder...

2the9s said:

2the9s said:

( :dolphinslap: )

... new edit

thescandalouslife said:

superpod, maybe there will be some natural disaster?.

Do you cry when you see dolphins? Why do I? It's weird.

superspaceboy said:

Copperheads Gather Early in Ark. This Year



LITTLE ROCK - It happens every year: large numbers of copperheads gather and move in unison to dens for hibernation. But it happens in October, not July or August. Now the common event has become an uncommon and inexplicable one.



"I know for a fact that all these snakes didn't just wake up one day and do this," said Chuck Miller, whose Marion County yard has been overrun with the pitvipers. "Something's making them do it. They know something we don't know. There's got to be something more to this."

Nearly 100 of the snakes are using a cedar tree as a sort of meeting place, and neither Miller, an outdoorsman and former snake owner, nor scientists who have traveled to the rural north central Arkansas site to study the phenomenon, know why.

Stanley Trauth, a zoology professor at Arkansas State University, said the snakes normally gather to move to hibernation sites in the fall. Trauth has traveled to Miller's property to conduct research on the snakes' behavior.

"With this hot weather we didn't anticipate such a grand movement of so many snakes. In the fall they aggregate in fairly large numbers, so it's quite an unusual event," Trauth said in a telephone interview Monday.

Miller agrees. "If it were October, no one would know about it. It wouldn't be that strange," he said.

When the snakes first started showing up three weeks ago, Miller said he was a little concerned that no one would believe how many were visiting the cedar tree, so he began collecting the reptiles. He saw 20 the first night, he said.

One of his friends contacted Trauth and the research began.

Trauth and one of his graduate students traveled to Miller's property and embedded a radio transmitter in one of the snakes for tracking purposes. Other snakes also had tags clipped to their scales.

Miller said seven of nine tagged snakes were taken a quarter-mile away from the tree and released, but have since returned to the tree and been recaptured.

Trauth said the copperheads gather at the tree to leave their scent. By rubbing the tree, other copperheads know that it is a marker on the way to a den site, he said.

But Trauth is only guessing that the snakes are preparing to move to a den for hibernation.

"All we can do is speculate as to what this is right now. This might be a precursor to an actual event. But having the numbers there that he's had, it just makes you wonder what's going on," Trauth said.

A gathering of copperheads like the one in Miller's yard has not been documented before, Trauth said. Though he can't yet explain why it's happening, he can say for sure it's not for mating or feeding.

All the snakes that have been gathering at the base of the tree are adult males. Copperheads also like to feed on cicadas, but the insects haven't appeared in the area in large numbers this year.

The best guess, Trauth said, is the snakes are moving to hibernate as usual — they're just doing it earlier than normal.

All Miller knows is, it's weird.

"It's like seeing a bigfoot or something walk across the yard; if you don't keep them, no one will believe you," he said.

Reincarnate said:

It creeps me out.... it sounds like a sign of the Apocalypse.....

MartyMcFly said:

i have been reading up on differen things happening ( like the above snake story )

quite interesting ... animals feel earth changes much more then humans do

Mach said:

Good thing I realized that "Ark" was short for Arkansas...

Nero said:

You've actively searched for this haven't you, you sick fuck...

MartyMcFly said:

I knew I'd have to explain myself. Some amount of years ago, there was a site called "goatse.cx." You can still search for it on google, but eseentially it's a guy bent over with his exposed, over-enlarged anus if you're not already familiar with it. For some time, it was hard to escape someone wanting a good laugh and sending you to the goatse page or some variant on it.

This very article used to be attached alongside the goatse page, such that if you clicked on a link there, you were informed about how to mate with a dolphin. So, initially, no, I never searched for it. Today, however, coming upon this thread, I felt it necessary to inform all members of Wales who may want to have love with a dolphin, just how it can be done.

Stay clear of the males.

Nero said:

Wikipedia on goatse... the explanation is far funnier than the picture could ever be.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goatse.cx

bloody welsh.

Byron said: