Cetacean stranding
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Cetacean stranding, commonly known as beaching, is a phenomenon in which whales, dolphins and porpoises strand themselves on land, usually on a beach. Beached whales often die due to dehydration, coll
A mass stranding of pilot whales on the shore of Cape Cod, 1902
Beached false killer whales at Flinders Bay, Western Australia, 1986
Three Beached Whales, a 1577 engraving by the Flemish artist Jan Wierix, depicts stranded sperm whales. Note the incorrectly recorded "nostril" and death erection.
"The Whale beached between Scheveningen and Katwijk, with elegant sightseers", by Esaias van de Velde, c. 1617
Cetacean
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Cetaceans are marine mammals belonging to the infraorder Cetacea, a secondarily aquatic clade under the order Artiodactyla that include whales, dolphins, porpoises and extinct groups such as Basilosau
Mother and baby sperm whale
Humpback stellwagen edit
Killerwhales jumping
GRNMS Right Whales