Wednesday, March 25, 2009

In Australia, six whales were repeated suicide attempts.

Six rescued from March 23, 2009 whales again jumped to the shore, reports AFP. It happened near the town of Augusta (Augusta) in south-western Australia.
Whales were seen from a helicopter patrol. Currently, attempts are made to save these animals. The situation is complicated by the fact that marine mammals are in the inaccessible region of the coast. To get there, rescuers had to use ATVs and helicopters.
Recall that in Monday, March 23, 2009 goda, more than 80 whales and dolphins jumped into one of the deserted beaches in the same region. Then managed to save 10 whales that have been released into the water. Currently, with the helicopters searching for the remaining four animals. Rescuers hope that they will all be gone in the ocean.
This is not the first case of mass suicides of whales and dolphins in March 2009. Thus, the first of March to shore jumped 154 whale and dolphin. Over the past four months on the beaches of Australia and Tasmania in total were found about 400 marine mammals.
So far there is no single explanation for the release of dolphins and whales on the coast. In the suicide of marine mammals blame a variety of factors: environmental pollution and increasing the acidity of the oceans. There is also a hypothesis that the cause of this phenomenon may be the work of sonar warships.

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