Cetacean stranding, commonly known as beaching, is a phenomenon in which whales and dolphins strand themselves on land, usually on a beach. Beached whales often die due to dehydration, collapsing under their own weight, or drowning when high tide covers the blowhole. [1] . Cetacean stranding has occurred since before recorded history. [2]

2023年2月21日 · In the past three months, nearly two dozen large whales have washed ashore on beaches on the east coast of the US. The surge in strandings has experts worried about the already vulnerable...

2021年3月29日 · Every year thousands of whales, dolphins, and other marine animals wash up on beaches around the world. This phenomenon—called beaching or stranding—occurs among both healthy individuals as...

2018年3月27日 · Each time a report surfaces of beached whales, we're left to wonder again: Why do these majestic creatures strand themselves on shore?

2024年4月25日 · In total, 130 whales were returned to sea after a total of 160 were beached, according to the department of Parks and Wildlife Service Western Australia (DPAW). However at least 28 whales died.

2023年8月1日 · When a pod of nearly 100 pilot whales stranded themselves last week on the shore of an Australian beach, it became the latest instance of a phenomenon that has long baffled marine biologists.

2018年8月13日 · There are many theories about why whales and dolphins sometimes swim into shallow water and end up stranding themselves on beaches in various parts of the world.

Florida’s Redington Beach experienced a mass beaching of short-finned pilot whales in July 2019. Sadly, yet another adult sperm whale found itself beached off Venice Beach and died as a result this passed weekend. When these strandings occur, we wonder why.

2024年5月14日 · Mysticetes (baleen/toothless) species rarely mass-strand. It is the odontocete (toothed) whales and dolphins that beach themselves in large numbers. In Australia and New Zealand, pilot whales strand in greater numbers than any other species. But why?

2023年9月20日 · When a whale washes up on the shore, why can’t it just be moved straight back into the sea? Strandings happen in the UK about 20-50 times a year, involving whales, dolphins and porpoises – types of aquatic mammals collectively known as cetaceans.