Puri, Feb 16: Close on the heels of a series of such incidents across the Indian coast, including the Odisha coast, another giant dead whale was washed ashore at Mangala River mouth here on Tuesday morning.
The forest department has seized the decomposed body of the whale whose length is nearly 38-feet.
“We will bury the body of the whale after ascertaining its cause of death,” said Puri DFO.
In the last few weeks, such incidents have been reported from all over the Indian coast stretching from the Chowpatty beach in Mumbai through the Chennai coast to the Odisha coast. In the Chennai coast alone, about 60 dead whales washed ashore in a single day.
Recently, three bodies of whales were found on the Ganjam, Kendrapara and Puri coast in Odisha.
On February 9, carcass of a giant marine mammal was found from the coast near Motagaon in Brahmagiri area.
Earlier this month, a carcass of a whale measuring 33 feet in length with a diameter of 12 feet was sighted at Podampetta coast in Ganjam district on February 3 while the carcass of another whale measuring 66 feet in length was found at Chinchiri mouth at Rajnagar in Kendrapara district on February 5.
A few days before this, a giant dead whale had washed ashore at the Juhu beach in Mumbai.
