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The whale was found on the beach, and it was absolutely stuffed with trash. Photos: Itsas Arima/Instagram
Plastic isn’t something that should be inside us. Unless it’s part of an artificial heart or a new hip, it’s best to keep it on the dry side of the human body. Same, of course, goes for animals. Unlike us, however, animals sometimes think that a floating bit of plastic is edible. You’ve seen the pictures. Those birds. Those whales. Well, we can add another one to the list: a female Curvier’s beaked whale washed ashore in early May with a little over 35 pounds of plastic garbage smashed into its guts.
Dead Whale Found With 16kg of Plastic Bags, Wrappers Inside Stomach
On 5/11/21 at 4:38 AM EDT
Environmental conservationists have expressed their anger after 16kg of plastic waste was found inside the stomach of a beached whale.
The cetacean, a female Cuvier s beaked whale measuring a little over 5 meters in length, washed up on a beach in Messanges in south-west France, which is on the Atlantic coast.
The whale s partially decomposed corpse was discovered by passers by on Saturday, May 8, and an autopsy carried out by environmental conservation groups Pelagis Observatory and Itsas Arima concluded that its ingestion of an enormous quantity of plastic products led to its death.