Some 200 stranded whales in New Zealand managed to refloat, but 350 have died

Monday, February 13th 2017 - 09:14 UTC

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Some 200 stranded whales in New Zealand managed to refloat themselves overnight and swim away, while volunteers managed to save another 17 whales at high tide. More than 650 pilot whales had beached themselves along Farewell Spit at the tip of the South Island in two separate mass stranding over recent days. Read full article

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Sad so very sad, you would think that we would have developed some sort of solar powered sonar buoys that emit a frequency that whales can't stand and placed them along the shore of these specific areas...
Feb 13th, 2017 - 05:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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It is sad. But it would probably be very expensive to put in buoys and who is going to pay? Also from what I have heard, the sonar would be just as likely to confuse the whales' navigation abilities and cause them to beach themselves instead of preventing it. You'd think we could do something though.
Feb 13th, 2017 - 09:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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