Post-Mortem Shows Pilot Whales Were Healthy Before They Swam Ashore and Died in NS

Post-Mortem Shows Pilot Whales Were Healthy Before They Swam Ashore and Died in NS
Pilot whales lie stranded on a sandbar near Strahan, Australia, on Sept. 21, 2020. The Associated Press/Brodie Weeding
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Animal autopsies on several pilot whales that washed ashore last weekend in Cape Breton indicate the whales were healthy, says a marine animal conservation group.

Tonya Wimmer, executive director of the Marine Animal Response Society, says necropsies performed on eight of the whales suggest the animals were not following a sick member who had become disoriented and led them to shore.