Animal autopsies on several pilot whales that washed ashore last weekend in Cape Breton indicate the whales were healthy, says a marine animal conservation group.
Tonya Wimmer, executive director of the Marine Animal Response Society, says necropsies performed on eight of the whales suggest the animals were not following a sick member who had become disoriented and led them to shore.
While the final necropsy results aren’t in yet, Wimmer says the whales potentially swam to their deaths because they weren’t paying attention to where they were going. Whales, she says, are often following food and don’t realize the ocean water receding as they approach the shore….