Wildlife rangers in Tasmania will euthanize 90 dolphins from a deep-sea species that became stranded on a remote beach. Efforts to refloat the dolphins, which can weigh over a tonne, proved unsuccessful. The incident controller stated that the animals were increasingly stressed by the sun and wind. This mass stranding highlights the challenges of rescuing marine mammals in remote areas.
Wildlife rangers will Wednesday begin shooting 90 dolphins stranded on a remote Australian beach, saying the stressed creatures would be euthanised after attempts to refloat them failed. A pod of 157 dolphins from a poorly understood deep-sea species was found stranded Tuesday evening on an isolated beach in Australia's southern island of Tasmania.
Tasmania's environment department said only 90 survived by Wednesday afternoon, growing increasingly"stressed" the longer they were exposed to beaming sun and lashing winds. Photo taken on February 18, 2025 and released on February 19 by the Department of Natural Resources and Environment Tasmania shows an aerial view of dolphins stranded on a beach near Arthur River on the west coast of Tasmania. "Following expert veterinary assessment we have made the decision to euthanise the animals," incident controller Shelley Graham told reporters.They appeared to be members of a large dolphin species known asEfforts to refloat the dolphins – which can weigh upwards of one tonne – had fallen short and were unlikely to succeed, said biologist Kris Carlyon. "This is possibly the trickiest location I've seen in 16 years of doing this in Tasmania. It is extremely remote, extremely difficult to get access. "We've given it a good crack this morning, but we are running out of options for a successful refloat." Dozens of sleek and dark-skinned dolphins were pictured Tuesday wallowing in wet sand as a shallow tide lapped against them.It is reasonably common for pods of false killer whales to strand themselves on Australia's beaches."Often we don't get to the bottom of the ultimate cause," said Carlyon.Poorly understood The dolphins were stranded on a beach near the Arthur River inlet on the west coast of Tasmania, a sparsely populated area known for its windswept coastline./ScienceAlert) "The moment a whale or dolphin strands, the clock of survival starts ticking," said marine scientist Vanessa Pirotta."Tasmania has proven to be a hotspot location for seeing mass strandings like this. Perhaps it's the geographical location – which makes it difficult to navigate around." False killer whales can reach up to six metres in length and are known as a highly social species that gathers in pods of 50 or more.The species is often involved in mass strandings that can"wipe out whole schools involving hundreds of animals",Little is known about false killer whales, according to a government factsheet, and there are no reliable estimates of their population size.
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