A total of 97 flying whales and three dolphins died in stranding, the New Zealand Department of Protection said, adding that they were notified of the accident on Sunday.
Wellington:
Around 100 pilot whales and bottlenose dolphins died in mass strandings in remote Chatham Islands, 800 km off the east coast of New Zealand, officials said on Wednesday.
Most of them were stranded over the weekend, but rescue efforts were hampered by a remote location on the island.
A total of 97 flying whales and three dolphins died in stranding, the New Zealand Department of Protection said, adding that they were notified of the accident on Sunday.
“Only 26 whales were alive at this point, and most of them seem to be very weak, and their mercy was once killed with the help of the harsh sea conditions and almost certainty that there were great white sharks in the water brought by stranding like Jimma Welsh, Ranger. Biodiversity in the DOC.
Mass delinquency is reasonably common in the Chatham Islands with as many as 1,000 animals dying in a single strand in 1918.
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