Whales. Gettin' older by the minute

Found a link to this article on a primitive hunter forum I sometimes visit. [COLOR="LemonChiffon"]When all y'all are being boring...[/COLOR]

Granted the OP is from 2007 and the article is from 2000, it's news to me. Who knew how old those fuckers could get?

http://pratie.blogspot.com/2007/03/bowhead-whales-live-more-than-200-years.html

In studies that could rewrite biology textbooks and establish whales as the longest-living mammals on Earth, scientists in Alaska and at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla have estimated the ages of three bowhead whales killed by Inupiat Eskimos in northern Alaska at 135 to 172 years. At the time it was killed, a fourth bowhead whale was believed to be a stunning 211 years old, the researchers concluded.

You're making arrowheads to hunt whales? You **are** ambitious, aren't you?

Well, you would expect them to be getting younger by the minute, would you?

I don't think the ones in that study are getting any older.

Damn, they might get older than tortoises?

And they're smart, so they remember how we used to hunt them. I'd be real careful kayaking with the buggers.

ZenGum;779178 wrote:

Well, you would expect them to be getting younger by the minute, would you?

They're whales. Can't be trusted, I wouldn't put getting younger past them.

HungLikeJesus;779182 wrote:

I don't think the ones in that study are getting any older.

:yum:

Isn't that one of the excuses the Japanese use for still whaling?
Research that can only be done once whales are dead, including how old they managed to get... before they were killed.

I suppose I should be impressed that they eat them afterwards. No waste.
Except that it suggests "scientific research" means "excuse for getting hold of endangered species as a delicacy".

Sundae;779257 wrote:

Isn't that one of the excuses the Japanese use for still whaling?
Research that can only be done once whales are dead, including how old they managed to get... before they were killed.
...

They could just cut off a fin and count the rings...

:right: