Dead humpback whale washes up in Sydney

(AP Photo/Rob Griffith)

Whales generate huge public interest in Australia and hundreds of people
flocked to the beach to see the whale floating in the pool.

“There’s a fascination with whales,” McFarlane said.

Sydney’s Daily Telegraph said some locals were moved to tears.

It’s so sad but it is a natural thing to happen in nature,” Lua Silva
told the paper.

Newport beach, which is north of Sydney city, was closed because of the risk
of sharks being attracted to the carcass as wildlife experts mulled their
best options to remove the giant creature.

McFarlane said one option could be to demolish the pool wall and let the
animal wash up on the beach.

(TORSTEN BLACKWOOD/AFP/Getty Images)

Another solution could be to pull it out to sea at high tide, or bring in an
excavator to lift it over the damaged pool wall at low tide.

Whales are often seen off Australia’s coast in June and July as they make
their annual winter migration from Antarctica up to the warmer waters off
Queensland state, and again as they return before November.

National Parks and Wildlife Service area manager Chris Grudhoff said while a
dead animal was unfortunate, it signalled there were increasing numbers of
whales in the waters off Australia.

“The upside of the fact that we are seeing more dead whales is that it
indicates that we have a whole healthy population out there in the ocean,”
he said.

Source: agencies

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