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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 .
At least some humpback whale strandings in the area are thought to be animals killed in vessel collisions, which may be far more common in African waters than scarce reports suggest. [31] Humpback whales near Cotonou’s harbour entrance and crossing the main shipping lanes, incur obvious risk.
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]
Whales, dolphins and porpoises have been stranding in greater numbers worldwide, according to 2020 study published in the journal Scientific Reports, though the cause of the phenomenon is not ...
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.
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 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.
However, some strandings of long-finned pilot whales have been observed in Florida. [90] The short-finned pilot whale is found throughout the Caribbean [93] [94] and along the continental shelf and slope of the Gulf of Mexico. [95] [82] It is apparently the most common cetacean species around Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. [96]