Department liaison officer Brendon Clark said the stranding was the first by false killer whales in Tasmania since 1974. That was a pod of more than 160 whales that landed on a beach near Stanley on ...

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Strandings in Tasmania are usually pilot whales. Clark declined to speculate on why the latest pod might have stranded. Carcasses of dead whales would be examined for clues, he said. A helicopter ...

Challenging surf conditions forced rescuers to abandon their efforts to save a pod of 157 stranded false killer whales.

Strandings in Tasmania are usually pilot whales. Clark declined to speculate on why the latest pod might have stranded. Carcasses of dead whales would be examined for clues, he said. A helicopter ...

Strandings in Tasmania are usually pilot whales. The largest mass stranding in Australian history occurred in the same harbor in 2020 when 470 long-finned pilot whales became stuck on sandbars.

An Aussie state has had to enact a tragic “last resort” decision after more than 150 whales were stranded on a remote beach.

Up one end, there’s a lot of big ones. It’s sad,” she added. In 2022, 230 pilot whales stranded further south on the west coast at Macquarie Harbor. The largest mass-stranding in Australian ...

It remains unclear how many survived. Around 470 pilot whales stranded at Macquarie Harbour near Strahan in Tasmania’s west coast in 2020, followed by another 200 in the same area in 2022.

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Rescuers are trying to free a pod of long-finned pilot whales stranded off the Australian island of Tasmania. Around 470 whales are in the pod, more than half of which have already died ...

The west coast of Tasmania has been the site of previous mass beachings: 470 pilot whales were stranded at Macquarie Harbour near Strahan in 2020 with another 200 at beaches in the same area in 2022.