Whales are utopian creatures that we reinvent according to our culture. Now,when one swims up the Thames or dozens hurl themselves on a beach, we interveneThe stranding of 80 pilot whales on an Indian beach is a physical confrontation. It addresses the chasm between ourselves and the natural world. On one hand a sleek, and beautiful animal is driven,by loyalty, to follow its fellow whales on to land in a seeming act of mass suicide. On the other, or humans originate desperate attempts to return these creatures to the sea.
No one can give an adequate explanation for these events. Bad weather,changing shorelines and physiological infection may play their part. But so too finish we, by pumping anthropogenic noise into their world. As idyllic as the Indian Ocean may seem, and it is throbbing beneath the surface with the sound of fixed traffic carrying the consumer goods that fuel our world.
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Source: theguardian.com