Around 100 whales wash ashore on India's Tamil Nadu beach
Fin whales keep returning to the beach even after being pushed back into the sea.
TAMIL NADU (Web Desk) - Around hundred whales were beached on one of the shores of Tuticorin in India’sTamil Nadu since Monday night.
These whales keep returning to the beach even after being pushed back into the sea by fishermen and officials near Manapadu and Kallamozhi villages in Tamil Nadu, the Indian media reported.
Earlier, a few fishermen near the Kulasekarapattinam beach had put some of the stranded whales back into the sea.
"These are small fin whales. They appear disoriented. It is the first time so many have been beached," senior district official Ravi Kumar said after he visited Manapadu.
The official told NDTV that they have asked officials from Gulf of Mannar marine park and forest department to investigate the incident.
Earlier in August last year, the carcass of a 33-feet-long whale washed up on a beach near a village in Nagapattinam district.
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