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| Basilosaurus |
Basilosaurus are not commonly found within the shores of Nigeria. For those who don’t know what it is, it is a sea animal.
Basilosaurus is a latin name translated to mean “king lizard” it was first thought to be a reptile but was later identified as an ancient type of whale, its lenght is about 70 feet with the skull as much as 5 feet.
it is a genus of large, predatory, prehistoric archaeocete whale from the late Eocene. it was described first in 1834 and was the first archaeocete and prehistoric whale known to science.
The disguised blessings started when riverine communities folks woke up one morning amidst the covid-9 lockdown to find dead croaker fish on their river banks in Rivers State,
The river banks was littered with thousands of dead croaker fish washed ashore by waves.
The authorities were deeply worried by the development and thus warned residents to refrain from the consumption of the fish while investigations on the cause of death was flung into action.
Few days after, precisely two weeks after the dead croaker fish saga, a fisherman in Bonny Island captured a large Basilosaurus that washed ashore in Finima, Bonny Island in River State.
Against the warning to desist from consumption of the sea animal that is the Basilosaurus, some residents on discovering the sea animal counted it a blessing and have been chopping off its tissues for consumption just as they did the dead dead croakers two weeks ago.
If you found yourself in their shoes what will you do in view of the current circumstance; No food, no cash trickling, govermnent provided palliatives which was shared but scarcely reached anyone, if it actually got to you it could barely take you and your family a day.
Will you eat?
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TINARIS WORLD 
I won't eat
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It's a bit scary to eat cos you don't know what killed the fish in the first place 🤷
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I wont eat.Never! Fact is even if I were hungry that hunger will disappear immediately. Why? I will be more concerned with what killed the fishes.Its indeed painful that we are wired to \”Consume\” and not \”Produce\”.If the fishes didnt wash up wont we eat? Before the fishes ,aren't we feeding? What if Covid19 is water borne and it found it's way into the fishes somehow?I wonder why many amongst us Act before they Think!
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Just as simple as life. You take what it throws at you and live for everday as a gift.
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