30-Foot Long Bryde's Whale Washes Ashore At Mumbai's Juhu Beach
The carcass of a Brydes Whale washed ashore on Mumbai&rsquos Juhu beach late on Thursday. It was first noticed by joggers who immediately informed the officials According to officials the whale measured around 30 - 40 feet and approximately weighed three to four tonnes.
The carcass of a Bryde's Whale washed ashore on Mumbai¡¯s Juhu beach late on Thursday.
It was first noticed by joggers, who immediately informed the officials.
According to officials, the whale measured around 30 - 40 feet and approximately weighed three to four tonnes.
They also said that there were no external injury marks on the dead body and the whale could have died at least two days back.
Dead whale washed up at JUHU BEACH, Mumbai last night. Dead whales are showing up in quite a lot of places. This is very alarming! For every whale washed ashore we should send 10 corrupt, environmentally unconscious, politicians into the ocean. Hopefully, one day, balance will be restored.
Posted by Ram Subramanian on 28 January 2016
Thursday's incident is the latest in a series of mysterious beachings of marine mammals reported from across the country.
Last week hundreds of dead endangered Olive Ridley turtles had washed ashore in Odisha's Puri.
Earlier this month, some 100 short-finned pilot whales had beached themselves along a 15-km beach stretch in Tuticorin in Tamil Nadu.
While stranding of whales and other marine mammals like dolphins is not uncommon, mass beaching has baffled scientists for years.
A number of reasons including climate change and unnatural weather phenomena have also been known to affect whales.
Some scientists also believe that under-water earthquakes which causes panic among these ocean giants leads them to beach themselves.
Bobins Abraham is the Assistant News Editor at Indiatimes. He has more than twelve years of experience in TV and digital journalism. An avid student of history and geopolitics, he is a conservationist and environmentalist at heart. He writes on environment, sustainability, human-animal conflict and more.
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