Whale Stranding

7960463673?profile=originalAlessandra Medri, the marine animal stranding coordinator for Palm Beach County’s Environmental Resources Management Department, checks on a pygmy sperm whale found near shore in Delray Beach on Aug. 28. Passersby and Delray Beach lifeguards stayed with and comforted the whale. After being examined by a veterinarian, the whale was found to be in failing health with no chance of recovery. It then was euthanized and transported to the Palm Beach Zoo for a necropsy. According to Dr. Kirt W. Rusenko, the marine conservationist at Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, this is the sixth pygmy sperm whale stranding in the area since May. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star | More Photos

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