DISCONCERTING FINDINGS: Scans on nine dead pygmy killer whales showed abnormal shadows in their middle ears, and they all had blackened livers
Taipei Times
Date: May 12, 2019
By: Lin Chia-nan / Staff reporter
Medical examinations of several whales found that damaged hearing might be the reason
Coast guard personnel rescue a pygmy killer whale stranded on a beach in Kaohsiung on April 26.Photo: Hung Ting-hung, Taipei Times
they became stranded, the Ocean Conservation Administration (OCA) said on Friday, adding that it would set up guidelines for training marine mammal observers to help mitigate the effects of offshore development projects.
The agency late last month received successive reports that whales were stranded on beaches near Kaohsiung and Tainan.
Rescued whales were taken to pools at National Cheng Kung University’s Marine Biology and Cetacean Research Center.
Nine dead pygmy killer whales were sent for a computed tomography scan, or CT scan, OCA Marine Conservation Division senior specialist Ko Yung-chuan (柯勇全) said.
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