Beached Whale, Mass Stranding
Every year there are several places with whales mass stranded on land, all lying under the hot sun in the beach. It was once surposed to be something enjoyable for humans but turns out to be one of the most deadly cause for losing more and more whales on Earth. Today there’s another serious suicide mission that involved 48 Whales and 5 Dolphins mass stranded on Tasmania’s King Island.
48 Whales & 5 Dolphins
Humans had also tried their best to save as much as they can but it’s not an easy job to always keep the whales safe. Sometimes when “Saving Private Whale” had come to the worst where it died on the beach, we humans had no choice but to blow up the seafood. I know, it’s cruel but effective.
Human is trying to rescue the whales
Not sure when it started, but beached whale had a long history way back before Napoleon Bonaparte was borned. I tried google some of the related documents or articles and found not much about when it started, but there are 2 or 3 images that leads to an idea of how long or way before it does.
Three Beached Whales, a 1577 engraving by Dutch artist Jan Wierix, depicts stranded Sperm Whales.
Stranded whale at Katwijk in Holland in 1598.
Why Mass Stranding?
Well, humans had not yet figure out any real reasons to why the whales made such a suicide attempt. Some said it can be attributed to natural and environmental factors, weather, illness, infections. Others said it to be a “Follow Me” stranding. The most recent reasons claimed to be sonar, a very loud noise from anti-submarine warfare sonar may hurt whales and lead to their beaching.
My Own Theory
Now, I am not a scientist. I don’t have a PHD. But I have one of my own conclusion regarding why the attempt to mass stranding and kill themselves. Wait, perhaps the word “Kill” is not suitable. The whales did not kill themselves, the mass stranding is not caused by infections, diseases, group brainwash or any super duper laser or radioactive wave or sonar shit.
I however suspect that it may have been a process of Evolution. We know that humans and other living, flying, walking beings on Earth does not pop out from thin air and rule the surface of the Earth. We were all from a single cell to tissues and organs and then life forms from sea. Evolution turns life form from sea slowly to walk on land and ended up flying in the sky.
So, question is “Why can’t it do the same for whale?” Maybe, just maybe… the whales or dolphines are trying to go through the same Evolution progress. They were trying to “walk on land“. I might be stupid or crazy to think such a reason even exist, but I don’t see why it does not. The whales had not been doing such action for just these few years. It was few hundred years back, way before humans even have any light bulbs in their house. So, in 1577 there was no submarine and no sonar shit. If it was a diseases, why can’t our current technology find any sign or cure after all these years?
When all of the known reasons were cleared out, I can only think of the Evolution to be the most possible reason where they are trying to force themselve to be able to “walk on land”. Just like how the rest of the walking beings on Earth had evolved long long time ago.
That would be rather freaky, IMO. But it does make sense. :3
Well, Evolution is always freaky. But I do like the idea that whale would one day walk on land — Humanoid walking Whale.