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Guess this kind of answers how many bears a beached whale will feed: ![[Linked Image]](http://www.hunt101.com/data/500/Tonsofbears3bbc.jpg) Info that I rec'd: Photo taken from the air over Kodiak Island. The bears are feeding on a whale carcass that can be seen near the beach. The pilot who took this photo said that there were just as many bears on the hillside (outside of the picture) as were on the beach�.. I count 42 in the picture. So another 42 on the hillside makes about 85 bears. Gotta be a couple of shooters in there!!!
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Muskeg Man, Unbelievable!!!! not a good place to be on foot. Don
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I like the "ATV" trails they've made!
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Reckon they're thinking, "What a salmon!!!"?
That's a great picture!
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My new wallpaper. Awesome!
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I hope Art doesn't see this... he will jump the population estimate of bears here to 15,000! :-_)
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Can you imagine being the deer hunters that got dropped on that bay the day before the whale washed up?..grin
Would give money to hear the sat phone call to Andrews or Seahawk for that early pick up!
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Yea, just getting out of the tent for the morning piss and seeing that.
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That is really something. Very cool.
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That is some picture.
Does anyone remember the video of the bear at Cold Bay? He was "The" Beach Master. Slept on top of a beached beluga carcass. No sea gull or raven dared to get close to the carcase. He ran all comers away. What a neat tape that was.
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Thus saith thr lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeh from the lord. Jeremiah 17:5 KJV
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I can see where a beached whale would draw bears from great distances... But many local dinks would probably find temporary quarters elsewhere...
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Oh, and NOTHING comes close to beached whale for stench!
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And if you have never seen it, I strongly recommend googling "exploding whale" and watching the video.
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Oh yeah!!! 
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Blubber is an amazing insulator. If the No Slope Inupiat can get to a "lost" whale anytime within the next 3 daysafter the kill, they'll take only the skin, which is out next to the cold water.
Inside the blubber layer, the whale will still be near normal body temp, in 32 degree water, trapped under the ice for 3 days. You can smell it right thru the ice- and the skin isn't all that good anymore either, tho still edible........
You can imagine what meat and innards kept at 100 degrees (or whatever) for 3 days is like....
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It would take a lot of sauce, I'll bet. 
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Blubber is an amazing insulator. If the No Slope Inupiat can get to a "lost" whale anytime within the next 3 daysafter the kill, they'll take only the skin, which is out next to the cold water.
Inside the blubber layer, the whale will still be near normal body temp, in 32 degree water, trapped under the ice for 3 days. You can smell it right thru the ice- and the skin isn't all that good anymore either, tho still edible........
You can imagine what meat and innards kept at 100 degrees (or whatever) for 3 days is like.... las is correct. In fact, a friend of mine (Stu Innes, now deceased) published a cool little scientific paper " How fast should a dead whale cool?" and the thermal modeling did indicate a surprising conservation of heat over many days. This is my favorite scientific paper title! Closely followed by my favorite book title " Consider a Spherical Cow" by Harte. John (biologist, if anybody is wondering)
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