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Scores of people gathered on a New Zealand beach on Monday as a young whale that died in a rare stranding was pulled to shore. The seven-metre (23-foot) fin whale died in the early hours after beaching on an estuary sandbank near the Christchurch suburb of Moncks Bay, the conservation department said. The coast guard used an earthmover to lift the whale’s body out of the water. A crowd of people perched on boulders at […]
Hobart, Australia (AFP) — The death of about 200 pilot whales at a Tasmanian beach has renewed questions about what causes such mass strandings and whether they can be prevented. With the help of Karen Stockin, a whale stranding expert at New Zealand’s Massey University, here are the answers to five key questions: What causes mass strandings? Scientists are still trying to work that out. They do know that there are multiple types of stranding […]
