Strandings

Cetacean strandings in general seem to have many causes. For some strandings, the cause or causes may be assumed to be known to us, but in many cases the causes are still baffling.

Here are some recent cases:

New Zealand November 2006 - Part 2

New Zealand November 2006 - Part 1

December 2006: A Bryde's whale on a Malaysian beach, it tried twice in two days, appeared to have wanted to die on that beach and appeared to have been in poor health shortly before dying:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061218/ap_on_sc/malaysia_whale_death