According to NHK TV, residents of Odawara City, Kanagawa Prefecture, found a whale carcass on the beach, which was very large, up to 14 meters long, and looked like a small hill when looked closely!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" Data-track="2" What species is the giant whale that died >? </h1>
14 meters long whales, there are still many types of whales to choose from, such as blue whales can exceed 30 meters long, fin whales can reach about 20 meters, as well as right whales, bowhead whales and sperm whales, etc., adults are giants that can exceed 10 meters.
However, from the published picture, it should be a sperm whale, which is the world's largest toothed whale, that is to say, those whales in the above have no teeth except the sperm whale, they are filter animals, usually eat some small fish, shrimp and rice, only sperm whales will have a thrilling hunting process.
Sperm whale male whales are relatively large, up to 14-18 meters (weighing about 40-60 tons), some extreme large male whales can even exceed 20 meters in length, weighing more than 70 tons, and they usually hunt in waters with a depth of more than 1000 meters, and their favorite prey is giant squid.
So the giant squid left a suction cup mark on them, and the sharp claws on the top of the tentacles made the sperm whale scale all over the body, but they still enjoyed it and never flinched! Therefore, this whale life force with an incomparably "powerful psychology" is very tenacious!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" Data-track="11" > whale died, what is the cause? </h1>
On July 6 and July 11, Zhejiang Linhai and Wenling encountered two stranded melon whales, a total of 14, except for 3 stranded for too long to die, the other whales returned to the ocean, but this time the sperm whales at Kanagawa Beach were not so lucky, it is said that they died before the stranding. According to marine biologists, there are several reasons for the accidental death of sperm whales:
1, because of the disease, this cause of death is also more common, such as bacterial infections and other causes death.
2. Injured by the propeller of the ship or hit by the ship
3. Malnutrition leads to physical exhaustion and death
In addition to accidental death and then accidental stranding, the reason is nothing more than disease or getting lost, or problems with the echolocation system, or problems with the navigation of the leading whale, resulting in stranding or collective stranding, the world's more famous collective stranding event:
1. In June 2015, 337 whale race whales were found stranded and died in Patagonia beach in southern Chile;
On September 21, 2020, 470 whales ran aground on the west coast of Tasmania, Australia, killing more than 380 whales
Many of the sporadic stranding deaths are found in the abdomen of a large number of plastic bags, resulting in malnutrition and death, of course, and human bottomless pollution of the ocean is inseparable.
Stranded sperm whales
Is it related to the Japanese nuclear leak?
On September 8, 2021, Japan's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare announced that there was a causal relationship between the throat cancer and the cleanup work of the two men after participating in the cleanup of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, and it was confirmed to be a work injury. This is the first time that Japan's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has identified a laryngeal cancer injury related to the Fukushima nuclear accident.
So some friends think that the death of this whale is related to nuclear leakage, but in fact, the wastewater of Fukushima's nuclear radiation will not immediately cause the whale to die, if such a large species begins to die, it is estimated that the fish in the Pacific Ocean will turn white! But that doesn't mean That Japan can discharge nuclear wastewater, and with a little conscience, such things as pigs and dogs shouldn't be done.
What about sperm whale carcasses?
There are two interesting little stories about the disposal of whale carcasses, the first occurred in the United States, in November 1970, a 14-meter-long, 8-ton sperm whale ran aground and died in Florence Beach, Oregon, when the Oregon Highway Bureau decided to dispose of the whale carcass with explosives, so hundreds of kilograms of explosives were buried to detonate it.
As a result, the explosion was far more powerful than expected, the splashed whale carcass pieces of flesh fell on the nearby highway, many cars were smashed, and the people who watched the explosion at the scene were splashed with whale blood, it was so smelly that they could not wash the smell when they went home and bathed three times! The reason for the explosion was that enough methane gas had accumulated in the sperm whale at that time, and the whale exploded at the same time when the explosive detonated.
Such a shameful thing can be done by Americans who love to be in the limelight, and the george Thornton engineer who organized the explosion after the local media was directly discredited, and it is very interesting that the locals also erected a monument at the location of the whale explosion.
On January 24, 2004, a sperm whale ran aground on the coast of Taixi Township, Yunlin County, Taiwan Province, China, and the local government planned to transfer it into specimens, but the result was that it exploded halfway, and the whale carcass flowed half a street, so smelly that people got up and cursed (in order to avoid affecting traffic, it was transported in the early morning).
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="37" > dug a pit? Don't, there may be treasures in it! </h1>
Therefore, it is more worry-free to dig a pit on the spot and bury it! However, it is the duty of the flower grower to remind that even if the sperm whale is picked up, even if the body is still likely to make a windfall, because the sperm whale may hide a valuable ambergris.
Yemeni fishermen and the 120 kg of ambergris they found on sperm whales
The so-called ambergris is that after the sperm whale eats the giant squid, its sea mantis and claws cannot be digested, so the whale's gastrointestinal tract will secrete a large amount of substance to wrap it up, which should be regarded as a kind of stomach stone or intestinal stone, and this substance is discharged into the sea after the whale dies, and after complex biochemical action, it becomes extremely expensive ambergris.
In August 2012, a boy found a 600-gram piece of top-quality ambergris on a Dorset beach, which was auctioned off for £40,000.
In March 2020, Li Mou of Langdao Village, Lanyu Island, Taiwan Province, picked up a piece of top ambergris weighing about 4 kilograms of gray and white ambergris at the beach, worth more than $200,000.
On June 6, 2020, Turkish media outlet Daily sabah reported that 35 fishermen from Yemen's al-Khaisah village had found a rare piece of "ambergris" said to be worth more than $1.5 million, inside the carcass of sperm whales floating in the Gulf of Aden.
So there are these cases, see the sperm whale carcass, as long as it is not bulging and about to explode, quickly dig it up to see, if you can find this "ambergris" in the gastrointestinal tract of the whale, then at least you can make a small fortune, and it may be a big fortune! However, the probability of finding ambergris in the carcass of sperm whales is still relatively low, about 5%, but this is better than 0%, isn't it?