Whales Hate Traffic Too
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007
Two wayward whales made it 20 miles back toward the ocean before balking at a Sacramento River bridge and swimming in circles, apparently upset by vibrations from the traffic.
The humpbacks, nicknamed Delta and Dawn, had traveled 90 miles inland before turning around at the Port of Sacramento on Sunday. They were making progress Monday until they reached the Rio Vista Bridge and began swimming in circles.
Scientists theorized that the whales began circling because vibrations from traffic upset them. The pair could not be coaxed forward even when the drawbridge was raised to halt the flow of vehicles.
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Please have your writers include in their stories a plea for people to write to the governor, asking him to order a shut down on the bridge altogether, for a day even two:
Write to him here: http://www.govmail.ca.gov/