CGTN published this video item, entitled “Rescue efforts continue in Australia’s mass whale stranding” – below is their description.
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Rescuers are working to save stranded whales with a warning that only a few dozen of the 470 marine mammals stuck on Australia’s coast can be saved. At least 380 pilot whales have died since their pod was discovered beached on Tasmania’s rugged western seaboard on September 20. It is Australia’s largest-ever mass stranding.
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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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