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Offshore deaths of multiple whales are unlikely to lead to multiple strandings, since winds and currents are variable and will scatter a group of corpses. Most carcasses never reach the coast, and are scavenged , or decompose enough to sink to the ocean bottom, where the carcass forms the basis of a unique local ecosystem called a whale fall .
A humpback whale, one of the species reported stranded on Ghana's beaches. Cetacean strandings in Ghana appear to be becoming more common.Whales washing ashore may be due to ship strike, population dynamics, or an increase in human coverage and reporting.
Strandings of sperm whales have occurred across much of their global range. About 60 per cent of the world's recorded sperm whale strandings occur in three regions – Tasmania, New Zealand and the North Sea. [1] 132 strandings of sperm whales were recorded around the coast of the United Kingdom (mostly in Scotland) between 1990 and 2011. [2]
The team at IFAW has responded to 342 live dolphins stranded on Cape Cod so far in 2024, five times their annual average of 67 live dolphins.
The brains of 22 stranded toothed whales, known as odontocetes and which includes dolphins, were studied by researchers at multiple universities in the United Kingdom, according to a study ...
The whales beached themselves on the Chatham Islands, which are home to about 600 people and located about 800 kilometers (500 miles) east of New Zealand's main islands. 477 whales die in ...
In September 2020, more than 450 long-finned pilot whales stranded in Macquarie Harbour on the western coast of Tasmania, in Australia's worst-ever stranding event. Most were stranded on sandbanks and beaches around the mouth of the harbour. 50 were rescued, with the balance, 380 whales, dying. [5] [6]
A dramatic operation to save the lives of more than 100 pilot whales ended in partial success on Thursday after wildlife officials managed to return most of the stranded animals to sea.