![]() And the Marconi telegraph company was, at that time, largely a British concern. Yet Pershing appeared to possess some channel of direct communications unknown to them and to their attempts to eavesdrop on the wireless communications of the day. after the American entry into World War One and after American troops began to arrive in France in early 1918, something had the other two main Western Allied powers baffled: how was it that the commanding officer of the American Expeditionary Force, General John Pershing, was getting his orders from Washington? He clearly was, but how? Note, this means the French and British were monitoring, or at least, attempting to monitor American communications. The 1918 stranding off New Zealand occurred before sonar or seismic exploration was being used.īut. Then, almost as if the article anticipates a possible hypothesis that maybe something electromagnetic might be interfering with the pilot whales' echolocation methods of navigating the oceanic depths, a little further on we read this: ![]() Note that the largest beaching occurred in 1918, the final year of World War One. In 2017, about 600 long-finned pilot whales stranded in Golden Bay on New Zealand’s South Island. Still considered to be the biggest was a 1918 stranding of about 1,000 pilot whales at Chatham Islands in New Zealand. There is no global database of cetacean strandings, but Betty says the 470 at Macquarie Harbour may be the third largest on record. Australia’s previous biggest stranding event also involved pilot whales – 320 of them got stuck in Western Australia in 1996. The five largest stranding events in Tasmania have all involved pilot whales. Pilot whales are the most susceptible of any of the cetaceans – that’s whales, dolphins and porpoises – to mass strandings. ![]() That significant though very obscure thing in its turn may have a direct bearing on the Sudden Animal Death event involving pilot whale beachings in Tasmania, and an earlier event: ![]() That said, however, it's not the kind of inaccuracy that one can fault either the article, nor the experts it consults, for, because the inaccuracy concerns a very little-known, very obscure fact about World War One that few people indeed know about it. There is, as one might have guessed, something in this article that caught my eye, an inaccuracy in fact, and it's a significant one. Tragedy in Tasmania: what are pilot whales, and why do they strand themselves? There has been another Sudden Animal Death event, this time with the beaching of hundreds of pilot whales in Tasmania, according to the following article sent along by P.A.I.: ![]()
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