At 01:36 PM 2/3/01 -0700, you wrote: 

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Gearly</bigger></bigger><fontfamily><param>LauriesHand</param><color><param>ffff,0000,0000</param>
size=4>  <bigger><bigger>A few years ago I read  that on
occasion....whales were getting beached then were dying or near death 
(and the cause was no apparent reason)   I have a bet with my friend that
I  say the answer is the changing universe....more commonly known as
global  warming....my friend says that they were beached because of their
change in food  or lack of it.  WHICH ONE OF US ARE
CORRECT..............or if neither one  is...what is the answer to that
if their is an answer....Is are such a concern  especially in California
I hear. 
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<bigger><bigger>I love the killer  whales (I think some call them ORCAS)
and the BALUKA Whale.....the rounder ones  of the specis (not sure of the
spelling)</bigger></bigger><fontfamily><param>LauriesHand</param> size=4>
 size=4>Thank</fontfamily> <bigger><bigger>L.  
Carter</bigger></bigger><fontfamily><param>LauriesHand</param>
<bigger><bigger>grade 8 -  Edmonton,  Ab.</bigger></bigger> size=4>  

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</fontfamily></color><fontfamily><param>LauriesHand</param>Carter,


Scientists are none too sure why whole groups of whales come ashore all
at once.  In at least some cases, it seems that they might have been
chasing food and gotten caught by the falling tide.  But this is not the
case for all mass strandings.  One thing is almost certain, that global
warming is not a cause.  The reason why we suspect that this is true, is
that strandings have been going on for hundreds and hundreds of years,
and any changes in climate has not seemed to have changed the number of
strandings.  


So I am not sure who wins this bet....


ge



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