Sperm Whales

This is so sad for such beautiful creatures.

A desperately sad event, unfortunately happening in other places around the North Sea coastline in recent weeks. Why? 

A desperately sad event, unfortunately happening in other places around the North Sea coastline in recent weeks. Why? 

The research people are taking samples from the Whales to try and answer that very question.

EDIT From the BBC News page :- "The Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme will examine the bodies". Hope they will be able to come up with some answers.

So sad, beautiful creatures.  Didn't take long for people to rush to the beach to take selfies from the pictures in today's DM. 

Another one has been found on the beach near Skegness today. So sad.

A number have been beached in European countries recently.  The idea of taking a selfie with a dead animal I find repulsive 

  The idea of taking a selfie with a dead animal I find repulsive 

Totally agree. What on earth would you do with the "selfies", who would want to see them ? Repulsive indeed.

Really sad to hear the recent news stories about the whales.  Apparently those found recently on UK beaches are all from the same group.  Sad.

David 

Not only people taking selfies which I find abhorrent, but spraying them with graffiti as well.  What CND has got to do with dead whales beats me.  Call themselves concerned environmentalists, they are warped.. 

A number have been beached in European countries recently.

They were saying tonight that a total of 17 have been beached recently here and along the European North Sea coastline. It would appear that they are starved, and hence suffering from thirst too, as Sperm Whales feed at great depths & when they get into the relatively shallow North Sea there's not the quantity of food available for such a huge creature.