Police have cordoned off the location to prevent people from stealing the mammal's meat or body parts.
The male sperm whale was found stranded on Yeh Leh beach in west Bali's Jembrana district on Saturday afternoon.
This is the third whale that has beached itself in Bali, a popular destination for holidaymakers, in April alone. Before that, a Bryde's whale weighing more than two tonnes and at least 11 metres long was founded stranded on a beach in Tabanan on April 1 -- its carcass already rotted when discovered by locals.
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