A recent spate of whales washed up on the state’s beaches may be coincidence but ship strikes,fishing lines, sonar and climate change are all taking a tollLast week, and scores of local residents made their way to Sharp State Park in Pacifica,California, a 20-minute drive south of San Francisco, and to view the body of a humpback whale that came ashore on 4 May.
When the 32-foot female humpback whale’s body came ashore,after days being tossed by waves, it was only the latest in a string of strandings along northern California’s Pacific coast.
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Source: theguardian.com