Around 100 whales washed ashore on Tuticorin beach, rescue ops on

January 12, 2016 11:04

Around 100 short-finned whales have been washed ashore in Tiruchendur coast of Tuticorin district since Monday night. According to officials, the local fishermen and rescuers dragged many of them back into the sea, but they kept returning to the shores.

The whales appear disoriented, the officials say.

In June last year, a 42-feet-long blue whale, the largest extant animal and among the heaviest existing species on the earth, was washed ashore and later died of its injuries.

In August, the carcass a dead 33-feet-long whale washed up on a beach near a village in Nagapattinam district.

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