This baby sperm whale washed ashore just down from our house. We went down the beach to see it and hoped it would make it's way back to sea. I am sorry to say there was no happy ending. We were all told that it was dead but now we see they had to kill it because it was in pain and distressed. I think it was struggling pretty hard to get back to it's mommy but I guess it was just to sick. I added the local news account and some photos I took. Beached whale euthanized in Corpus Christi SOURCE:
Corpus Christi Caller-Times Posted: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 at 8:42 a.m. CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS (AP) -- A 30-foot-long sperm whale weighing more than eight tons was euthanized after stranding itself in shallow surf along the Texas coast. The whale washed up about 40 feet from the shore Tuesday on Mustang Island. Onlookers watched it thrash about before a veterinarian gave the whale two doses of tranquilizers, enough to knock out two or three elephants. A necropsy to see why the whale was sick was scheduled for Wednesday, the Corpus Christi Caller-Times reported. Police say a wrecker service that volunteered to pull the whale from the water likely saved $9,000. Lea Walker, a regional director with the Texas Marine Mammal Stranding Network, says the whale was too massive to transport or hold in a tank to rehabilitate. (Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
3 comments:
Ohhh. That is sooo sad.
sad things are not aloud on blogs. you broke a rule.
i just pulled a mom. i meant "allowed". i didn't know whales lived in the gulf of mexico... do they usually come this close to the texas coast?
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