Pod of 157 dolphins stranded on remote Australian beach

The Manila Times

Pod of 157 dolphins stranded on remote Australian beach  Dolphins lie dying on a Tasmanian beach after a pod of more than 150 stranded in Australia's southern island, according to environment officials. The pod of 157 dolphins from a poorly understood deep-sea species was believed to have stranded in the past 48 hours -- with 'approximately 90' still alive as of Feb. 19, 2025.  AFP VIDEO  Subscribe to The Manila Times Channel - https://tmt.ph/YTSubscribe   Visit our website at https://www.manilatimes.net   Follow us:  Facebook - https://tmt.ph/facebook  Instagram - https://tmt.ph/instagram  Twitter - https://tmt.ph/twitter  DailyMotion - https://tmt.ph/dailymotion   Subscribe to our Digital Edition - https://tmt.ph/digital   Check out our Podcasts:  Spotify - https://tmt.ph/spotify  Apple Podcasts - https://tmt.ph/applepodcasts  Amazon Music - https://tmt.ph/amazonmusic  Deezer: https://tmt.ph/deezer  Tune In: https://tmt.ph/tunein  #TheManilaTimes #worldnews  #dolphin  #australia

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00:00While we've had good recent success at previous whale stranding events on the west coast at

00:12Macquarie Harbour and surrounds with refloating and rescuing whales, it's important to note

00:18that the environmental and access challenges mean we are unlikely to be able to use those

00:22same rescue techniques.

00:24Our mass stranding events usually involve pilot whales, however these are false killer

00:28whales and it is our first large mass stranding of these animals in around 50 years.

00:35It's currently an early stage in the response and so assessments are ongoing, therefore

00:40some details are limited and yet to be confirmed.

00:44At this stage we do not know why these animals have stranded and we won't be speculating.

00:50The team on the ground will be conducting post-mortem investigations and sampling of

00:54deceased animals in an attempt to determine some reasoning behind the stranding.

01:01The duration of it could be a number of days, but of course we'll be trying to determine

01:05what will be the most humane method of dealing with the affected animals, those stranded,

01:12and given if it's determined there is a very low likelihood of being able to refloat them,

01:19then we have to look at what other options are available to us.

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