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About 240 pilot whales beached themselves in the northwest of Chatham Island, just 3 days before 240 whales beached themselves at nearby Pitt Island. [43] Chatham Island, New Zealand: 230 195 35 2022 About 230 pilot whales beached themselves on the west coast of Tasmania, exactly two years to the day of another mass stranding in the same area. [44]
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.
Volunteers worked frantically on a second day Wednesday to save dozens of pilot whales that have stranded themselves on a beach in Western Australia, but more than 50 have already died. Nearly 100 ...
The last of nearly 100 whales that beached on the southwestern Australian coast were euthanized Wednesday after a second day of frantic, but unsuccessful efforts to rescue them, authorities said ...
Volunteers attempt to keep body temperatures of beached pilot whales from rising at Farewell Spit, New Zealand. Of the cetaceans, pilot whales are among the most common stranders. [44] Because of their strong social bonds, whole groups of pilot whales will strand. Single stranders have been recorded and these are usually diseased. [3]
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.
More than 30 pilot whales that washed up on a beach in New Zealand have been safely returned to the ocean. Conservation workers and residents helped to refloat the whales by lifting them onto ...
Whaling in the Faroe Islands, or grindadráp (from the Faroese terms grindhvalur, meaning pilot whale, and dráp, meaning killing), is a type of drive hunting that involves herding various species of whales and dolphins, but primarily pilot whales, into shallow bays to be beached, killed, and butchered.