Science & Environment
What causes pilot whale strandings?
It’s one of nature’s strangest mysteries that has baffled humans for millennia.
It’s one of nature’s strangest mysteries that has baffled humans for millennia.
Hearts broke across Australia last month as we watched efforts to save a pod of almost 100 pilot whales stranded on a Western Australia beach eventually fail.
Wildlife experts have had to euthanise the remainder of a pod of whales that began beaching themselves on a remote West Australian beach earlier this week.
Around 450 pilot whales are currently stranded just off Tasmania’s west coast. This is how it happened and how we may be able to rescue them.