Beached whale swallows rubbish, dies in Malaysia
AP - Wednesday, October 15
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - A beached whale has died in eastern Malaysia after swallowing a plastic bag, a rope and a bottle cap, a marine researcher said Wednesday.
the 10-meter-long (33 feet) Bryde's whale got stranded at the Kuala Nenasi estuary in eastern Pahang state Monday and died a day later despite villagers' efforts to safe it, said Mohamad Lazim Mohamad Saif, a researcher with the Turtle and Marine Ecosystem Center, who was at the scene.
Mohamad Lazim said the preliminary findings of an autopsy showed the female had swallowed a black plastic bag, a rope and a bottle cap, which clogged its intestine.
"When they come to the beach, this means they want to die. Usually it's like that," Mohamad Lazim told The Associated Press. He said the sick whale may alternatively have ended up at the beach after getting separated from its pod and losing direction.
Marine boats managed to pull the 3.9-ton (3.5-metric-ton) whale back into the sea during high tide late Monday, but that by Tuesday it was back on the beach. Villagers sprinkled it with sea water and covered it with wet blankets and a mattress, Mohamad Lazim said.
The state's veterinarian department will continue to examine the whale, which will later be buried near the estuary's jetty, he said.
Another Bryde's whale stranded and died in eastern Sabah state in Malaysia in 2006. Bryde's whales are members of the baleen whale suborder and are found in tropical waters.
Can’t believe it??!!?
U sure its becoz it ate the black plastic bag and cork and rope tts why it’s dead??
Hm….. its just a big mammal!! How can such small thingy clogged its intestine??? Even if it does, at most constipation rite? Will die?? Hm……scary lor….i always have constipation does tt mean I will……ermm….*TOUCHWOOD* but then again, human is different bah. I can always go buy the LS medicine and within a day “system cleared”
But I just wondered ALOUD!! “why no attempted made to bring the whale back to the ocean huh?? Haul it back into the sea lah…..why cannot huh?”
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If you don't clear your system in 2 days or so, the toxin build up in your intestine will be enough to make you sick. So really, the arse is the most important part! Remember the joke about the most important part of your body?
So pity the whale; it has no LS medicine to eat. That's why it is wrong to throw rubbish into the sea, esp to release balloons cos when they deflate, they usually fall into to the oceans and get ingested by marine animals. And then they die... :(
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