Medicine & TechnologyAuthorities are investigating the cause of death of the sperm whale that washed ashore on Tel Aviv beach. Read the article to know how many whales are beached or stranded each year.
New Zealand witnessed one of the largest whale stranding in history. While the exact cause of mass stranding remains a mystery, historically many factors are believed to drive these whales to kill themselves by beaching.
A story that should have celebrated the birth of another whale into the world ended in tragedy Monday, after the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission made the decision to put two sperm whales down. Though often rapid response units are able to successful push whales back out to shore after a brief beaching, the circumstances surrounding the beaching led local officials to make the life-or-death decision.
In a race against the clock, volunteers in New Zealand’s famous Golden Bay are attempting to save the near 200 pilot whales that beached themselves early Friday morning, Feb. 13. In what researchers say is the largest beaching event in over a decade, the pod of pilot whales became trapped on a sandbar known as the “Farewell Spit”, which is a common trap for migrating whales.