Pilot Whales

Massive Whale and Dolphin Strandings in Australia

By Niki Fears on 3/16/09 3:06pm
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Nearly 200 pilot whales and have a dozen bottle nose dolphins were recently stranded on the beach of southern Australia last Sunday evening. Unfortunately only 54 of the pilot whales and 7 of the stranded dolphins were still alive when rescue workers began working furiously on Monday to return as many of them to the water as possible.

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150 Whales Die In Mass Stranding

By diosmio on 12/1/08 7:54am
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Sad news today, 150 pilot whales died after being stranded off Tasmania's west coast.  The numbers nearly doubled from what it was believed to be yesterday.

The whales were discovered Saturday, on a rocky area of coastline of Sandy Cape.  Members of the local community and about six Department of Primary Industry and Water members worked in vain to try to save the stranded animals, that had been badly injured by the rocks.

Warwick Brennan, a department spokesman said that the whales' chances of survival were much less in that sort of environment than if the had come ashore in a sandy area.

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