More than 100 stranded whales die on beach, few still breathing
More than 150 whales have turn stranded in Hamelin Bay in western Australia, and usually 15 of them were still alive on Friday, authorities said.
The mammals are believed to be short-finned commander whales.
The stranded animals were initial speckled by a blurb fisherman early on Friday morning.
As of Friday afternoon, usually 15 whales were alive. A rescue operation was underway to try and flock them behind to sea. Authorities contend palliative caring will be administered where necessary.
“I consider it’s positively incredible, I’ve never seen anything like it, seen so many whales beached like this,” pronounced Barrie Brickle, a traveller visiting a area.
Shark alert
A shark warning has been released by a Fisheries Department as a stranded whales might attract a sea predators.
“Unfortunately, many of a whales beached themselves on dry land overnight and have not survived,” rescue group personality Jeremy Chick said. “Rescue operations will be hampered by deteriorating continue conditions and we need to safeguard a reserve of everybody concerned before we pierce a whales.”
The carcasses were being private from a beach, with Parks and Wildlife Service officers holding DNA samples in an try to collect clues about because whales strand.
In 2009, some-more than 80 whales and dolphins died on a beach in Hamelin Bay.
The biggest mass stranding of whales in Western Australia happened in 1996 in Dunsborough. That year, 320 long-finned commander whales beached themselves.
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