“Often it’s simple misadventure - one or two or a few animals get themselves ... finned pilot whales off the country’s western coast in 2018. Australia’s largest ever beaching was 320 ...

He said another theory suggested whales stranded themselves in response to sonar ... to leave the still-beached behind. Smith said re-beaching was "quite common". "It is important to remember ...

Close to 500 pilot whales beached themselves in September 2020, in what has been described as Australia’s biggest mass stranding on record. Why do whales strand themselves and why is it so ...

This is not the first time this kind of beaching happens in the Argentine Patagonia area: in 1991, almost 200 pilot whales were stranded and died twenty kilometers north in Punta Tafor.

Alarm bells were sounded after 30 false killer whales were spotted in the Drowned Caye area - waters that are too shallow for these creatures. The sighting spurred the Clearwater Marine Research ...

Some 477 pilot whales have died after stranding themselves on two remote New Zealand beaches over recent days, officials say. None of the stranded whales could be refloated and all either died ...

These highly intelligent cetaceans have been documented creating large waves to wash seals off ice floes, and even intentionally beaching themselves to catch prey on the shore. Read more about what ...

The marine mammals stranded themselves in Hamelin Bay, 315 km south of the state’s capital, Perth, between March 22 and 23. All but six of more than 150 short-finned pilot whales that stranded ...

Perth, Mar 23 (AFP) At least 135 short-finned pilot whales died today after a mass beaching in Australia ... “Most of the whales beached themselves on dry land overnight and have not survived ...

At least 70 whales have perished since the start of ... There, the leviathans gorge themselves on small crustaceans and amphipods that live in the muddy sediment of the Bering, Chukchi and ...