The sperm whales are
often found stranded on shore. The reason why they push themselves
onto the beach is still unknow, the presumptions vary,
most possibly, it is an illness, perhaps, some kind of a disease,
which directs them to the land, where they are marooned and die.
This case was not any other than that, five beached sperm whales had
died overnight on the shore of the Island of Texel. The whales were
very dangrously close to the shore, the ditsnce was trecherous and
became a lethal trap for the mammals. As scientists foresaw it was
almost impossible to get them back onto the open ocean. Some of them
which had been turned back, spinned aroung and returned onto the very
shallow water, the shore itself. The reason of such behaviour is
still a puzzle to be solved.
''We
wish it could last longer'' – one of the authorities said, however,
the Netherlands do have a protocol, which gives 12 hours to rescue
the mammals, if it doesn't happen they are sedated or within this
time, die themsleves. The time mustn't be longer, the weight of
whales and the possition they are placed on shore
damage their lungs rapidly and irreversibly.
Special thanks:
1. Gemeente Texel
2. Politie Bureau Texel; https://www.politie.nl/mijn-buurt/politiebureaus/04/a1/texel.html
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