Talk:Bowhead Whale

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Hi, welcome to Wikipedia. To read and/or edit an article about the Blue Whale, click here : Blue Whale. Pete/Pcb21 (talk) 13:44, 4 Feb 2004 (UTC)

[edit] New article about a bowhead ... OLD bowhead...

here. Tomer^talk 22:13, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

The BBC also carries this topic now:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6751175.stm

Here's another one. Curiously it says "Experts have pinned down the weapons manufacture to a New England factory in about 1880 and say it was rendered obsolete by a less bulky darting gun a few years later", somewhat contradictory to the 1890 dating in the article. --Anshelm '77 22:49, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Similarities

The text from this article:

In May of 2007, a 50-ton specimen caught and harvested off the Alaskan coast was discovered to have the head of an explosive harpoon embedded deep under the blubber of its neck. Examination determined the 3 1/2-inch arrow-shaped projectile was manufactured in New Bedford, Massachusetts, a major whaling center, around 1890. This proof that it survived a similar hunt more than a century ago indicated to researchers that the whale's age was between 115 and 130 years old.

The text on Slashdot:[1]

LABarr writes "AP and CNN are carrying a story that has forced scientists to re-evaluate the longevity of mammals. A bowhead whale caught off the Alaskan coast last month had a weapon fragment embedded in its neck that showed it survived a similar hunt over a century ago. 'Embedded deep under its blubber was a 3½-inch arrow-shaped projectile that has given researchers insight into the whale's age, estimated between 115 and 130 years old. The bomb lance fragment, lodged in a bone between the whale's neck and shoulder blade, was likely manufactured in New Bedford, on the southeast coast of Massachusetts, a major whaling center at that time. It was probably shot at the whale from a heavy shoulder gun around 1890.' "

They're not the same text, but it's pretty clear that either they had a common ancestor, or one was directly based on the phrases from the other. -Harmil 20:40, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

It's most likely this is because they were both derived from a news agency report.. EasyTarget (talk) 09:44, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] conservation status confusing

of the populations listed in the Population Status section of the article only one is "conservation dependent" with all other populations in worse shape. Why is the conservation status in the infobox then listed as conservation dependent instead of vulnerable or endangered?--Ibis3 19:02, 6 August 2007 (UTC)