More Than 150 False Killer Whales Stranded In Tasmania

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19 February 2025 at 9:15 am

More Than 150 False Killer Whales Stranded In Tasmania. More than 150 false killer whales beached themselves during a mass stranding near Arthur River in Tasmania, Australia on Monday and Tuesday. Australian authorities are euthanising about 90 of the whales which survived the stranding as conditions have made it impossible to save the stricken cetaceans. The rest had died shortly after the stranding. Incident Controller Shelley Graham said that ocean conditions had sadly doomed the whales, as they were unable to make it out to sea again. False killer whales haven't mass stranded there in over 50 years. Despite their name, false killer whales are technically one of world's largest dolphin species, like the orcas they resemble they can grow up to 6m (19ft) and weigh 1.5 tonnes. Authorities on Wednesday that the pod had been stranded at the site for 24 to 48 hours, putting them under extreme stress. As with many mass whale strandings, it is not known what caused this stranding.

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