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...summertime saga that gripped the nation, for its poignancy and the troubling mystery it posed. Just as the sun rose over the languid beaches in the crook of the elbow-shaped playland of Cape Cod, early-morning strollers were astonished by surprise visitors. Lying helplessly in shallows near the town of Dennis, Mass., like so many black boulders, were 55 grounded pilot whales. Although nine of the whales soon died or had to be put down (with lethal injections of sodium pentothal), rescuers managed to push 46 others...
With its shallow waters and shifting sands, Cape Cod has long been a graveyard for both man and whale, especially pilot whales. In this treacherous terrain, the whales' critical echolocation system--those telltale clicks whales depend on for everything from avoiding predators to finding a mate--can easily become confused. Yet even after years of studying these big-brained creatures, scientists admit that's only an informed guess and doesn't explain groundings elsewhere. "I could give you an unlimited number of scenarios," says veteran Smithsonian cetologist James Mead, "and because we know so little about whale biology...
...until they contaminate the fish on which seals, sea lions and whales feed. Suspected causes of the blooms: the inadvertent fertilization of coastal waters by agriculture runoffs and, most alarmingly, the rise in seawater temperatures from global warming. If so, the death of the whales last week off Cape Cod could be a warning...
Like the platoon of Babbitts who succeeded in having the homeless camps removed from Hyannis, the Cape Cod Times seems to believe that removing homeless people from tourists’ view will resolve the problem of homelessness—that the only problem with homelessness is its unattractiveness and its undermining of the Cape’s bucolic image...
...interview the Cape Cod Times conducted the day after the city hauled away the remains of the six camps, a homeless woman complained: “We’re not bothering anyone This town doesn’t want the homeless here. They are trying to get us all off the Cape.” Like an aging courtesan, Barnstable is learning the danger of relying on its looks for a living—and like an aging courtesan, it has yet to learn that handsome is as handsome does...