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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]
Last year more than 50 pilot whales died in a mass stranding event in Scotland. The same month wildlife officials in Western Australia said they had to make a heart-breaking decision to euthanize ...
In 2013, the executive officer of the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group published an essay on the group's website asking, "Are we Experiencing an Unusual Mortality Event (UME) in Ireland?" The concerns centered around increased strandings of various species of dolphins, paralleling a declared UME relating to bottlenose dolphins in the U.S. at the time.
Though mass strandings of this species are most common in New Zealand, pilot whales have beached themselves in many other countries in places such as northern Europe, the Atlantic coast of North America, South America, and southern parts of Africa. Over 600 pilot whales were involved in a stranding at Farewell Spit, New Zealand on February 9, 2017.
A pod of more than 50 pilot whales has died after a mass stranding on a northwestern Scottish island, according to a marine charity on the ground.
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. 'Exhausted.' Marine mammal strandings on rise on Cape.
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]
A pod of 55 pilot whales have died after they were found washed ashore on a beach in Scotland in the worst mass whale stranding in the area, marine experts said Monday. Marine rescuers, the coast ...