While I will not give it a NSW rating.. you might want to make sure nobody around is squeamish.
Sweet baby Jesus!, WHY would you poke it?!?!??!
musta been pretty ripe to esplode like that. 
Trans_Maro wrote: Sweet baby Jesus!, WHY would you poke it?!?!??!
He didn't poke it. He cut it open with a flensing knife. Their original purpose was to cut up blubber for rendering....now they're common as a whale necropsy tool.
BTW, I think sperm whale carcasses tend to do this. It also happened in Taiwan in 2004
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU0F9GYzhO8
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/a-night-of-exploration/videos/blubber-incoming/
If you want to see a sperm whale autopsy done right, here's one dissected in the UK as an episode of their Inside Nature's Giants TV show http://video.pbs.org/video/2188105613/
Pretty much any animal carcass does this if it can't vent. That's why it's not wise to poke green deer and such.
ITS AN OLDIE, BUT A GOODIE!
Must have eaten a bunch of those sugarfree haribo bears just before dying....
JoeyM wrote: He didn't poke it. He cut it open with a flensing knife. Their original purpose was to cut up blubber for rendering....now they're common as a whale necropsy tool.
Video was taken in the Faroe Islands, which is one of the few areas left where whales are harvested for food and such as. (IIRC they have a 1000/yr limit)
Favorite comment from the FARK thread: "I bet that smelled pretty good."
Knurled wrote:JoeyM wrote: He didn't poke it. He cut it open with a flensing knife. Their original purpose was to cut up blubber for rendering....now they're common as a whale necropsy tool.Video was taken in the Faroe Islands, which is one of the few areas left where whales are harvested for food and such as.
I knew that they still did drive hunting of small cetaceans like dolphins and pilot "whales" (still a delphinidae)
but I'm unaware of any hunting of large whales like the sperm whale or the baleen whales.
In reply to JoeyM:
Thank you for linking to the best gif in the history of gifs.
Lancer007 wrote: In reply to JoeyM: Thank you for linking to the best gif in the history of gifs.
If I had more mojo, I'd add text to it.
Knife goes in, guts come out. Knife goes in, guts come out.
That's how I want my funeral to go.
JoeyM wrote: but I'm unaware of any hunting of large whales like the sperm whale or the baleen whales.
Oh, it's still active. A number of Asian countries, like Japan, wrap it up as "scientific research". Norway just does it. Greenland and Iceland also. Russia is still very active in it. As well a number of the small island nations and various native tribes, which includes some in the US and Canada.
All baleen whales.
JoeyM wrote: BTW, I think sperm whale carcasses tend to do this. It also happened in Taiwan in 2004
Could be related to the extreme depths at which the animals often operate in.
foxtrapper wrote:JoeyM wrote: but I'm unaware of any hunting of large whales like the sperm whale or the baleen whales.Oh, it's still active. A number of Asian countries, like Japan, wrap it up as "scientific research". Norway just does it. Greenland and Iceland also. Russia is still very active in it. As well a number of the small island nations and various native tribes, which includes some in the US and Canada. All baleen whales.
Yup, I knew that. (..and also knew about the cool PCR work Baker and Palumbi[*] did to prove that the whale meat in Japanese supermarkets included endangered species, not just the minke whales they could go after under the IWC scientific loophole.) Allow me to edit my earlier statement for clarity:
JoeyM said: ...but I'm unaware of any hunting of large whales like the sperm whale or the baleen whales in the Faroe Islands
My point was that the glorious exploding whale .gif shown above was clearly not a fresh kill from a whaling operation. The animal in question was bloated and decaying, so the guy flensing it was probably doing a necropsy. (....or, has some really weird hobbies.)
[*] - the second guy's name may be misspelled. That was off the top of my head, from back in grad school days when I studied marine mammals.
[EDIT: Nope, I spelled it correctly. BTW, at the time, that work was seen as pretty hard core, in your face stuff. I was young, idealistic, and thought it would change everything. It was slightly useful, but I don't know that it has changed much. There's a good write up on it here]
Needs more dynamite:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAW4mntPM-w
Hello Allstate, am I covered if whale blubber crushes my Oldsmobile?
In reply to Wally:
Not if your new oldsmobile came out early this year......
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