Monday, March 02, 2009

More Mysterious Mass Whale Beaching

Australian authorities are racing to save dozens of pilot whales and a small pod of dolphins beached on an island.
The mammals have stranded themselves on King Island, in the Bass Strait between the mainland and the southern state of Tasmania.
Reports say about 140 out of nearly 200 whales have already died.
More than 400 whales have died in Tasmanian waters in recent months, in a phenomenon for which scientists still have no definitive explanation.
The 194 pilot whales and half a dozen bottlenose dolphins became stranded on Naracoopa Beach on King Island on Sunday evening.
BBC report w/video HERE

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