The body of the 56-foot-long, 120,000-pound animal was first noticed on a reef off Kauai, Hawaii, on Friday. High tide brought it ashore on Saturday.
In this photo released by the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources, an excavator makes numerous attempts to free a whale from the shoreline and move it onto Lydgate Beach in Kauai County, Hawaii, on Saturday, Jan. 28, 2023. Scientists suspect the large sperm whale that washed ashore in Hawaii over the weekend may have died from an intestinal blockage because it ate large volumes of plastic, fishing nets, and other marine debris.
“The presence of undigested fish and squid lends further evidence of a blockage,” she said in a news release from the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources. It’s the first known case of a sperm whale in Hawaii waters ingesting discarded fishing gear, West said. Researchers found nothing wrong with other organs they examined. They collected samples to screen for disease and conduct other follow-up tests.
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