Australia is a country known for its development and scenic beauty along with mammals. In an astonishing situation, the mass stranding on the west coast of the island was observed on Monday. Marine biologists are struggling to save the surviving pilot whales in a complex operation which is likely to take many days. It's still not known what drew the whales to the shore. Tasmania last recorded a mass stranding in the year 2009 that involved around 200 whales. Rescuers from the Tasmanian Maritime Conservation Program arrived late on Monday and found three groups of whales across Macquarie Heads, a remote tip of the island with a limited vessel and road access.
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About 200 of the vertebrates had washed up on a sandbar near a boat ramp, while the remaining 30 were found several hundred meters away. Another 30 were found further inland along Ocean Beach. A team of about 40 qualified rescuers began to "re-float" a small number of whales on Tuesday morning using tools to push the animals off a sandbar into deeper waters. Around Australia and New Zealand, different kinds of whales migrate with season every year in pods as large as 1,000 animals.
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Researchers say they follow a leader and their strong social bonds can lead to whole groups beaching themselves. "It might have been a single misadventure by one or two of them and because pilot whales are such a social species, that may have drawn the other animals in," a leading researcher said. In the year 2018 in New Zealand, more than 200 pilot whales died over the course of a week in separate strandings off the nation's east coast.
