A whale has died in Thailand after ingesting more than 80 plastic bags.
The pilot whale was found barely alive in a Thai canal and vomited up five of the bags during fruitless rescue attempts by a team of veterinarians.
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An autopsy revealed that the poor mammals gut was packed to capacity with trash bags.
The Guardian reports: The small male pilot whale was found barely alive in a canal near the border with Malaysia, the country’s department of marine and coastal resources said.
A veterinary team tried “to help stabilise its illness but finally the whale died” on Friday afternoon.
An autopsy revealed 80 plastic bags weighing up to 8kg (18lb) in the creature’s stomach, the department added.
People used buoys to keep the whale afloat after it was first spotted on Monday and an umbrella to shield it from the sun.
The whale vomited up five bags during the rescue attempt.
Thon Thamrongnawasawat, a marine biologist and lecturer at Kasetsart University, said the bags had made it impossible for the whale to eat any nutritional food.
“If you have 80 plastic bags in your stomach, you die,” he said.
Thailand is one of the world’s largest users of plastic bags. Thon said at least 300 marine animals including pilot whales, sea turtles and dolphins, perished each year in Thai waters after ingesting plastic.
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what sort of creature throws plastic bags into the ocean ?Are they normal?And as usual we can give a big thanks to science for its creations and yet again another wonderful benenfit for mankind from their progress.So economic of them to make little plastic bags for us,
Ignorant creatures , humans who do not give a shit about the sea and its occupants.