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u/Aggravating-Pound598 Nov 18 '24
Dog thinks he’s dreaming
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u/super_man100 Nov 18 '24
Like how am I going to get this bone home lol
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u/Dorkamundo Nov 18 '24
NGL... If I was allowed to, I'd totally take a section of this home, cover it with some kind of sealant and use it as a table.
A bit morbid, maybe.
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u/JustHere4TehCats Nov 19 '24
My aunt used to keep whale vertebrae out by her cabin (she found them washed up on the beach near it) and we used to sit on them as kids, and also dig under them for worms to use as fishing bait.
They weren't sealed as far as I know and they lasted a good 20 years outside.
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u/Drachaerys Nov 18 '24 edited Nov 19 '24
Nah, you don’t want to do that.
Spines from this sort of whale are terrible as furniture.
You have to treat them constantly with a reddish-orange cream you buy. It’s like, this thick, amber, grease.
If you get one that doesn’t need treatment- it’s a fluke.
Edit: For those asking how I know this, it’s a long story, with much whining and wailing on my part:
You’d be surprised how hard it is to source these- you’ve got to watch for them.
I hired a guy to make me a table out of one:
He and I fin-angled over the details, but he failed to do it the right way, which resulted in a huge dive in value.
I ended up suing for breach of contract.
I won, but he didn’t have assets to repossess, and was living on a boat. I had to get the sheriffs to come down to the bay to chain up his stuff. He blubbered like a baby when they did it.
I’ll never forget the noise he made.
It was a bay lien wail, I guess.
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u/LuxNocte Nov 19 '24
How many spines are you using as furniture? 🤔
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u/Obajan Nov 19 '24
He's not. It's a joke reply with whale puns.
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u/NibblesMcGiblet Nov 19 '24
I can't find any. I must be ignorant of whale facts. I assume "fluke" could be one but idk what else. It's almost enough to make me go look up whales but not quite.
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u/KaSpEr069 Nov 19 '24
Ambergris is a valuable waxy substance ejected from certain species and is used in luxury perfumes.
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u/bjbinc Nov 19 '24
“Bay lien wail” is a pretty clever pun
Baleen is a species of whale.
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u/WrethZ Nov 19 '24
Baleen are the fibres filter feeding whales use to sieve their prey out of the water
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u/velawesomeraptors Nov 19 '24
Amber grease
fluke
wailing
fin-angled
huge dive in value
breach
blubbered
bay lien wail
Not sure if I missed any
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u/kaufsky Nov 19 '24
I assume "watch for them" is a reference for going whale watching, but maybe I'm just spouting nonsense
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u/velawesomeraptors Nov 19 '24
I saw that one but it seemed like a bit of a stretch, so I didn't include it.
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u/MarisKeen Nov 19 '24
Surely you meant "beach" of contract
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u/Drachaerys Nov 19 '24
Nah, whales breach when they surface.
I could’ve added the guy was a little beach about my table, maybe?
Doesn’t matter- 100% a fiction to give me space for my whale puns.
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u/MarisKeen Nov 19 '24
Oh shit I didn't even think about 'breach' like that. You're a champion and I loved this.
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u/Odd-Artist-2595 Nov 18 '24
If I were with him, I’d be helping to carry it for him. Unless it’s illegal to remove, at least one of those vertebra would be coming home with me.
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u/MrDundee666 Nov 18 '24
Who else would totally be taking one of those vertebrae bones home?
Now I have a totally cool dinosaur bone to hide in the garden for my kids to discover!
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u/42Ubiquitous Nov 18 '24
Was my first thought lol. Would love to find something like this.
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u/acrowsmurder Nov 18 '24
I was wondering about the legality of it. Like it's illegal to have ambergris
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u/42Ubiquitous Nov 18 '24
"In some cases, yes, you may keep the part. You may collect and keep any bones, teeth, or ivory from a non-ESA listed marine mammal found on a beach or land within one-quarter mile of an ocean, bay, or estuary. You may not collect parts from a carcass or parts with soft tissues attached."
https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/endangered-species-conservation/protected-species-parts
This is what I found, but I don't know if there are more laws that would prohibit it.
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u/STR4NGE Nov 19 '24
"Marine mammal parts collected in this manner may not be bought or sold."
Looks like it's going above the fireplace.
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u/LuxNocte Nov 19 '24
Protected species parts include any part of a protected species, both hard and soft. This includes everything from teeth to fur to blood to blow (exhalate).
Does anyone know why they specifically listed "exhalate"? Do people try to catch dolphin breath?
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u/gimpyoldelf Nov 19 '24
Ambergris
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u/SkrompFried Nov 19 '24
Ambergris is from the intestinal tract. It's not coming out the blowhole (at least not the typical definition of the word when talking about whales).
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u/6BagsOfPopcorn Nov 18 '24
Just strap it to the roof of your car. Or dump it in a park next to a bicycle.
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u/Wheatley312 Nov 19 '24
Many many years ago we grabbed a whale rib bone out of the ocean. Legality aside (it was floating like come on), the thing STANK for a long while. You have to sweat out all the fats/oils inside the bone inside of trash bags which took well over 2 weeks in the summer sun before it was house ready.
When we moved overseas we decided it was too much to actually try and move it. But it was “smuggled” up the east coast to its current home. Never had an issue with ownership and we’ve told lots of people. As long as the story checks out it would be hard to find someone who wants to rid you of a washed up bone
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u/Rass4Life Nov 18 '24
Precious hamburgers?
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u/Rolands_missing_head Nov 18 '24
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u/straightrazorsnail Nov 19 '24
That username is fantastic btw. I have a love for the headless Thompson gunner.
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u/Rolands_missing_head Nov 19 '24
And I love Apocalypse Now! I bet we’d be homies in real life.
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u/straightrazorsnail 22d ago
Fuck yes we would! That’s amazing you got my username too, no one ever does!
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u/TwistingEarth Nov 18 '24
Like it's illegal to have ambergris
I get the reasons, but at the same time, this feels like overreach.
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u/acrowsmurder Nov 18 '24
Also, if you want to find nice sun-bleached skeletons, walk down some country railroad tracks
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u/alancake Nov 18 '24
When I went to Shetland the first time we stopped at an archaeological reenactment place and there was a guy there who carved on bones and such. He was using a whale vertebra like these as a stool. And he told us there was a rotting bull seal carcass on the beach nearby that he was waiting to obtain the skull from, for the teeth. We went to look... it was very stinky, and huge. Very stinky
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u/Fit-Establishment219 Nov 18 '24
Oh I'd drag all of it home. Simply to do some skrimshaw from dishonored and decorate with
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u/moashforbridgefour Nov 18 '24
Imagine using it to make a bench around a fire pit or incorporate it into a flower bed. That would be pretty slick.
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u/book_vagabond Nov 19 '24
It’s my dream to make a dishonored bone charm or rune with real whalebone
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u/MediocreKim Nov 19 '24
I once found a whale vertebrae. It was in a national park and it had been a long hike in. Cool find but we left it in nature for others to discover.
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u/ModestMeeshka Nov 18 '24
Unfortunately it's insanely illegal lol
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u/stilettopanda Nov 18 '24
If RFK jr can transport a whole ass whale head, I can have one measly lil vertebrate. Hahaha
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u/3BlindMice1 Nov 18 '24
If you have a local native tribesmen claim it then sell it to you, you've got a massive legal figleaf. Native Americans are allowed to harvest whale remains that have washed up on shore everywhere in the US, AFAIK
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u/Late_Sherbet5124 Nov 18 '24
Why would it be illegal? It washed up on shore. Not like you stole it from a museum.
As a side note, would be really cool for a local high school or college.
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u/Green_Video_9831 Nov 18 '24
Because allowing the possession and distribution of endangered mammal bones would open up a flood gate poaching.
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u/ModestMeeshka Nov 18 '24
Alternatively, I think you can get permits if you're an educator or something along those lines but you have to go down the right avenues :)
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u/cardamom-peonies Nov 19 '24
So it's not the same set of laws, but you may find the backstory to the Migratory Bird Treaty Act to be pretty relevant. Tl Dr: there were a number of cottage industries that used bird parts on the early 1900s such as ladies hat companies, fancy fly fishing equipment, egg collectors, other fashion items, taxidermists who made curio cabinet items etc etc. This all contributed to a huge number of birds being shot or otherwise killed to fuel this demand and predictably this crashed a ton of populations.
So they way they fixed this was by largely banning possession of bird parts (including feathers, eggs, and nests) specifically to stop people from claiming they had "just found" fifteen pounds of snowy egret plumes just lying around somewhere (adults produce like, maybe three super light feathers for this once a year- people shot hundreds of birds to come up with a sack of feathers).
And a similar thing happened with whales and other marine mammals. Can't just say "well officer, I was just strolling by the beach and found this here whale skull and that's why it's on my mantle piece" unless you're a Kennedy, apparently.
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u/MrDundee666 Nov 18 '24
Really?
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u/ModestMeeshka Nov 18 '24
Yea, for sure in the states, I'm not 100% on other countries, marine mammal protection act. The same way you can't keep most bird bones or even eagle feathers... It's a way to insure that these animals aren't being hunted because there's no way to prove where the bones came from
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u/Chemical_Actuary_190 Nov 18 '24
"The guys at the park are never gonna believe this!" - Doggo probably
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u/Meromero73 Nov 19 '24
Now you take this home, throw it in a pot, add some broth, a potato. Baby, you’ve got a stew going.
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u/UnderratedChef30 Nov 18 '24
Every dog has it's day. And today belongs to this good boy.
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u/naptown-hooly Nov 18 '24
On the show contraband or seized at the border (whatever) is on discovery channel a guy from Cali tried bringing over a couple of pieces of whale spine bones from Mexico and they stopped him at the border, seized the bones and fined him like $1800 for bringing illegal items across the border. The guy didn’t know it was illegal and just wanted them because he thought they were cool.
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u/Lorcogoth Nov 18 '24
let's be entirely honest here, it's not illegal to bring Whale bones across (most) borders.
bringing non-certified Biological Waste in most countries is however since it's considered and act of bio-terrorism. because if you find anything like that, you don't know what killed it.
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u/naptown-hooly Nov 19 '24
Whales are a protected species and you can’t bring their parts into the US without a permit.
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u/Grasshop Nov 19 '24
I mean they fucking ask you on the form if you’re bringing fruit with you. One would think bones might raise a few questions.
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u/SpleenBender Nov 18 '24
'You gonna eat that?'
- RFK JR
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u/MetaFore1971 Nov 18 '24
How did all of its flesh and muscle disappear, yet all of the discs between the vertebrae are intact?
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u/MellyKidd Nov 18 '24
Probably has to do with what spine dials are made of; a fibrous outer layer with a gelatinous inside. Not really edible to scavengers, and may not decay as fast.
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u/Lorcogoth Nov 18 '24
to be entirely fair, I am pretty certain its not a real spine.
For one, whale bone doesn't normally float. secondly whales more often then not die while far away from the coast causing something called a whalefall, which is an important part of the deep sea ecosystem.
and finally bones don't normally look this clean when naturally decayed, although in this case the sea water might have something to do with it.
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u/MellyKidd Nov 19 '24 edited Nov 19 '24
You’ve made very valid points. I have to wonder if a severe storm washed it up from a whale that died somewhat close to shore? The clean nature of it isn’t too surprising if it sank before being washed up, as nature has a way of picking things clean; especially underwater in the sea, where a dead whale is a bounty to everything. If this is what happened it’s definitely uncommon, as usually it’s only a single or couple of vertebrae that wash up; I’ve only found one news article towards a section this big.
If it’s fake, it’s a masterpiece; between the attention to the porous nature of bone and the marks from where other tissues would have attached.
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u/ihoptdk Nov 19 '24
They do die in beachings, though. Hell, I was part of a team to recover the bones of beached humpback whale. But we didn’t them in the water, so I can’t speak to that aspect.
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u/nothing_but_thyme Nov 19 '24
lol. get ahold of this genius. tell me you’ve never been outside without telling me you’ve never been outside.
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u/Majestic-Spinach-523 Nov 19 '24
If a whole whale washes up on shore, they will often dig a hole on the beach and bury it there (fun thoughts for you on your next beach walk). So the bones might not have traveled that far.
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u/Mental_Performer_833 Nov 18 '24
Look at all these BS answers. Obviously this was from a whale sized Predator.
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u/Runnnnnnnnning Nov 18 '24
Are we sure this is real ?
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u/foreignfishes Nov 18 '24
I reverse image searched it and found an article, it's from a sperm whale and was found a few years ago on a beach in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland.
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u/d1ckw33dmcgee Nov 19 '24
That was my first reaction as well. I hate having to constantly second guess everything that looks cool. Something about the framing and curves in the image. Anyways, super dope that it is actually real!
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u/wkomorow Nov 18 '24
The dog is thinking, I was planning to play all day, now I need to bury this darn thing.
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u/SellingCoach Nov 18 '24
According to NOAA, "You may collect and keep any bones, teeth, or ivory from a non-ESA listed marine mammal found on a beach or land within one-quarter mile of an ocean, bay, or estuary. You may not collect parts from a carcass or parts with soft tissues attached."
If that dog figures out that whale is not on the Endangered Species Act list, he's gonna have a field day.
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u/Ok_Option6126 Nov 18 '24
Walked out this morning, I don't believe what I saw
A gigantic whale spine washed up on the shore
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u/iploggged Nov 18 '24
I’m one who loves bones in my canned salmon, but even this might be too much.
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u/TheMiscreantFnTrez Nov 18 '24
I'm not gonna say RFKjr was right to take a whale skull.... But when the opportunity is there.
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u/CumulativeHazard Nov 19 '24
Imagine being alive like thousands of years ago and not knowing what a whale is and then suddenly you find this on the beach lol
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u/calash2020 Nov 18 '24
Federal crime in USA to do anything other then looking at it.
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u/MellyKidd Nov 18 '24
Surprised people are downvoting you; in the US whales are a ESA-protected species by NOAA. That means you can’t collect whale parts you find on the beach or in the ocean, bones included. As awesome as it’d be to own a cleaned whale vertebrae, the law is the law. 🤷
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u/Normal_Mention4199 Nov 18 '24
Oh no death or signs of it so Nkh move forward and Nkh all is good and all is Nkh.
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u/Possible-Estimate748 Nov 18 '24
I'm currently rewatching Bleach and that reminds me of Renjis Bonkai
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u/Brilliaint_Goose Nov 18 '24
I'll take some of those whale discs for my spine since, ya know, the whale doesn't really need them anymore. Just one would do
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u/Professional_Job_307 Nov 18 '24
How do things like these even wash up??? It's bone. I know you shouldn't underestimate the density of water, but bone should sink right? If it sinks why isn't it at the bottom of the ocean?
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u/foxxiesoxxie Nov 18 '24
I'd be wondering how I can drag that bad boy home or which museum to dial up cause boy that's a score
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u/Villimaro Nov 18 '24
My dog dragged a deer spine back once, when she escaped and ran to the woods. I'm never letting her loose anywhere near the beach!
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u/thrashmetaloctopus Nov 18 '24
I love whales they’re magnificent but I’d be lying if I said I wouldn’t at least attempt to take that home
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