CGTN published this video item, entitled “Racing against the tide: Rescue of 470 stranded whales in Australia begins” – below is their description.
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https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-09-23/Rescue-of-470-stranded-whales-in-Australia-begins-U1BHvkeJ1u/index.html
Rescuers are trying to free a pod of whales beached off the island of Tasmania. They had found another 200 stranded mammals, bringing the total to 470 and making it one of the country’s biggest beachings. Rescuers are racing against the tide to try and save whales stranded on a sandbank.
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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. Cetacean stranding has occurred since before recorded history.
Several explanations for why cetaceans strand themselves have been proposed, including changes in water temperatures, peculiarities of whales’ echolocation in certain surroundings, and geomagnetic disturbances, but none have so far been universally accepted as a definitive reason for the behavior. However, a link between the mass beaching of beaked whales and use of mid-frequency active sonar has been found.
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