#humback

Imagine trying to escape the stresses of your week & unwind with a little kayaking, when a beautiful humpback whale decides you look delicious. 👀

(At least the whale quickly realized his mistake. Also, the kayaker is ok. Whale may never live this one down though).😂

Have a better day & don't forget to laugh a little! 🤣🥰

~beccawise7💜🖤

2nd humpback death in 2 weeks worries experts, farmed salmon industry

Megan Thomas - November 30, 2018

Three humpback whale entanglements at B.C. fish farms in recent months, two of which resulted in deaths, have whale researchers and the salmon farming industry concerned. A juvenile humpback died last weekend after it became trapped between the inner and outer containment nets at Greig Seafood's Atrevida salmon farm in Nootka Sound.

The death comes just two weeks after another dead humpback was found stuck in equipment at an empty Marine Harvest Canada fish farm on B.C.'s Central Coast. In that case, the whale became entangled in an anchor support line at a site north of Bella Bella. A third humpback whale was rescued from the same spot in September, but it has not been spotted since, and it's not clear if it survived the injures it suffered.

The cluster of incidents has fish farm operators worried, said Jeremy Dunn, executive director of the B.C. Salmon Farmers Association.

"The farmers are quite upset. This is not something that is normal, and they want to take every step they can to ensure this doesn't happen," he said.

Spinoza’s Conflation.

Spinoza commits what we can call ontological optimism.

He identifies conatus the raw striving of being as neutral, and says that in humans it can take the form of adequate thought. But he vastly overestimates how often, and how naturally, this happens.

Worse, he acts as if thinking is the maturation of instinct, when in fact thinking and instinct are often enemies.

Babies don’t think. They scream. Their conatus is undiluted, blind, hormonal, physical. Thinking emerges only later and only in some. Not as a flowering of nature. But as an interruption.

Humpback whales in Ecuador.

A new adventure begins and this time I decide to make a trip that I had postponed for a long time and that I had not decided to do this time is whale watching. From the months of June to September, humpback whales arrive from Antarctica to the beaches of Ecuador. They do it for two reasons: reproduction and having their young. They take advantage of the heat of the Ecuadorian waters to migrate…