WatchersNews: About 50 melon-headed whales were found to have beached on the shore in Kashima, Ibaraki Prefecture, in eastern Japan Friday night and 22 were rescued and returned to the sea on Saturday by authorities and local volunteers.
About 200 people, including staff at Oarai Aquarium in the same prefecture, city government officials and local residents and surfers near the Oritsu coast tried to save the beached whales by keeping them hydrated while they tried to refloat them, but 30 of them died, according to the city government. It took about eight hours to return the surviving whales to the sea, the officials said, adding they have buried the carcasses of the dead whales on the nearby shore.
Melon-headed whales are commonly seen offshore around the area in the early spring and they may have been drawn into the shallow waters while following their food, said Masayuki Shimada, chief of the marine animal exhibition section of the aquarium. (JapanToday)
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We used to have a saying, “I bust a cap in your moon-head ass!”
I still don’t know what that means. But it may have something to do with melon-head, or bucket-head whales.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ScDCiQOd4o
Nobody rides for free.
Ohio has melon head cryptids in Kirtland so they say
We got a melon-head pedophile retard for a presidunce.
He ain’t got enough sense to beach hisself.
Come to think of it, Fetterman’s a fukkin melon-head, too!
Must run in the party.
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
Carnegie Mellon University is disavowing any association with the Kirtland Kryptids…
Melon heads are all green on the outside and red in the middle. Did Gallagher ever meet a melon headed-whale? And did these whales only grow melon-heads after we nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Does anyone ever go up to them and say ‘Nice mellons’?
Is there a connection between water, melon-headed whales, and Juneteenth?
I didn’t read the article; did they blame global warming?
The Japanese eat these things, why not start butchering them and make sushi?
Tony R, only if the melon-headed whales are caught smoking menthol cigarettes, eating tons of fried chicken and drinking large quantities of malt liquor. Then I’d say it’s a party.
If there were similar whales off the coast of New England, they’d all be chowder-headed whales.
And if there are any whales up by Green Bay, Wisconsin they’d all be yellow cheese-headed whales.