A beached whale is a whale which has become stranded on land, usually on a beach. Beaching is often fatal for whales, as they become dehydration and death. Some die when their lungs are suffocated under their own weight or drown when high tides cover their blowholes. Humans sometimes try to save beached whales; however, such efforts are not always successful. ==Causes== The cause of beaching is not definitely known; but, there is some evidence that anti-submarine warfare sonar and other water noises (such as those emitted from oil drills) are of a sufficient intensity to cause the whales to surface too rapidly -- the whales then suffer haemorrhage and decompression sickness, due to rapid pressure change. It's also sometimes theorized that at least some of these beachings are suicide attempts by the whales. Those theories are usually based on the assumption that whales are highly intelligent animals, capable of planning its own death to (say) end some suffering, or even manifesting religious-like behaviors, like belief in an afterlife. ==Carcass== After a beached whale dies, they can become sources of disease and pollution; as they are very large, such corpses are difficult to move — there are reports of some cases where humans tried to exploding whale the carcass with explosives, with predictable side effects to spectators. A whale carcass should not be consumed. In 2002, fourteen Alaskans ate ''muktuk'' (whale blubber) from a beached whale, and eight of them developed symptoms of botulism, two of them requiring mechanical ventilation [http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5202a2.htm]. This is of course a problem in common with any spoiled meat, or meat taken from an already-dead animal. ==See also== *Exploding whale Cetaceans
Whales are intelligent. There is every reason to believe at least some of them are deliberatly commiting suicide. Some are autopsied and found to have some painful condition. Others appear to have been healthy before they beached themselves. Some beach themselves as a group, and do it again if humans "save" them. Is this a Jim Jones kind of thing? Is this a religious suicide - I mean culture/idea based - maybe life after death ideas? Do wales, some of them , think after death they return as humans? Some smarter humans think they reincarnate as various animals. If I could find ANYTHING scientific on this, I wouldn't be putting this on the DISCUSSION page.
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A beached whale is a whale which has become stranded on land, usually on a beach. Beaching is often fatal for whales, as they become dehydration and death. Some die when their lungs are suffocated under their own weight or drown when high tides cover their blowholes. Humans sometimes try to save beached whales; however, such efforts are not always successful. ==Causes== The cause of beaching is not definitely known; but, there is some evidence that anti-submarine warfare sonar and other water noises (such as those emitted from oil drills) are of a sufficient intensity to cause the whales to surface too rapidly -- the whales then suffer haemorrhage and decompression sickness, due to rapid pressure change. It's also sometimes theorized that at least some of these beachings are suicide attempts by the whales. Those theories are usually based on the assumption that whales are highly intelligent animals, capable of planning its own death to (say) end some suffering, or even manifesting religious-like behaviors, like belief in an afterlife. ==Carcass== After a beached whale dies, they can become sources of disease and pollution; as they are very large, such corpses are difficult to move — there are reports of some cases where humans tried to exploding whale the carcass with explosives, with predictable side effects to spectators. A whale carcass should not be consumed. In 2002, fourteen Alaskans ate ''muktuk'' (whale blubber) from a beached whale, and eight of them developed symptoms of botulism, two of them requiring mechanical ventilation [http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5202a2.htm]. This is of course a problem in common with any spoiled meat, or meat taken from an already-dead animal. ==See also== *Exploding whale Cetaceans
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Whales are intelligent. There is every reason to believe at least some of them are deliberatly commiting suicide. Some are autopsied and found to have some painful condition. Others appear to have been healthy before they beached themselves. Some beach themselves as a group, and do it again if humans "save" them. Is this a Jim Jones kind of thing? Is this a religious suicide - I mean culture/idea based - maybe life after death ideas? Do wales, some of them , think after death they return as humans? Some smarter humans think they reincarnate as various animals. If I could find ANYTHING scientific on this, I wouldn't be putting this on the DISCUSSION page.
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