Sightings and Strandings

1.46X9 Male specimen weighed about 80 kg

Code - 2

Code-3, skin peeled off in a few places

Code-4

Code-1, Live stranding

Code-3 Blue Whale Carcass Whale Diglipur, March 03: A young blue whale measuring 12.2 meter long was washed ashore dead on Smith Island Beach of Diglipur on 2nd March 2022. As per report, Dr. Bhojane Nagnath Martand. Senior Veterinary Officer, Veterinary Hospital, Diglipur conducted the post mortem examination of the carcass of this endangered sea mammal on 02/03/2022 itself on the official request of the Range Officer, WildLife Range Kalara, Diglipur. As per post mortem examination report, 03 cut wounds on the right ventral aspect of neck region were noticed on the body. Post mortem report further revealed that the carcass was showing post mortem ballooning resulting into rupture of skin at right side tail region and oozing of black whitish oily fluid indicating putrefactive changes in internal organs while mouth was widely open, no teeth and protruded ballooned esophageal part through mouth was seen. Left side fin and tail were completely rotten and the skin part completely detached. Internal examination revealed that both the ventricles were empty and black coloured while lungs, liver and other vital organs were in black in colour indicating highly putrefred. Intestines were ballooned and blackening and highly putrefred. A conclusion drawn from the examination details and analysis of the visceral lesions that the blue whale possibly might have died due to severe haemorrhage leading to hypovolemic shock and cardiorespiratory failure. The wild life and territorial staff of the Forest Dept. then cut the carcass into pieces and buried them in a deep trench to finally dispose of the dead whale, the source said.

Code 3

Code 4

There seems to be a nylon thread intertwined with the guts and in the mouth. Code 4.

Fd was present, decided to bury it somewhere on the shore. Code 4

Code 3, carcass is 9 ft in length.

Code 3, 134cm long and 27cm width.

4m 97cm from mouth to tail bone Total length including the elongated decomposed tail 6m 66 cm Width of the body 55.. though it is quite decomposed Remains of what looks like a possible beaked, baby whale.

Code 3

Code 2, male dugong, 530 kgs

length 25-30 ft. Code 4, buried.

Code 2

Code 2, there were white markings on the lips and throat. The animal looks young.

Code 3, half of the body is either eaten by sharks post mortem or damaged by a propellor.

Code 4, 25 ft length

Code 3 adult male dolphin stranded at Bhatye beach. No necropsy done.

code 3 porpoise adult found by two zoologists

A calf was found live by, kept in a small container filled with water, but it couldn't survive. Rake marks were present on it.

Neonate, code 2, foetal curves present. No teeth formed yet.

Shored on the beach. Code 4 condition. There was clean shark bite on the body.

a pod of pilot whales found on the way to dive site. they were resting on the surface in one location with not much social display. distance between individuals was 1-1.5m.

Single adult dolphins sighted by divers at the Dickinson pinnacles dive site. Was alone just chilling . Curious. Came around all the divers

washed ashore code 4

Code 3

live dugong footage on a drone by Sagar

young dolphin washed ashore

Code 4

code 4 delphinid

Adult dugong washed ashore - necropy carried out with WII research team.

Code 3

code 3 - sandy beach dead stranding.

code 3 finless porpoise adult male washed ashore

Code 3 finless porpoise adult. pictures available

dead adult female washed ashore. has scars on the body. code 2

total length 120cm - iohd calf. external injuries and fetal curves

animal washed ashore - adult - ஆவுடையார்பட்டினம்

Code 2. Was reported months later on the network.

Azheekal Kollam Kerala, 30 km from the coast.

carcass floating at the waters edge. Adult male

Carcass washed ashore. It was a small balaenopterid with remnants of umbilical cord. 46 pleats.

7-12 dolphins near the shore.

dead animal washed ashore. no data collected. fd buried the same on the same night.

Large pod of Sousa dolphins, about 20+(?) in number, close to shore, off the Pondy promenade. About an hour ago. Headed North.

finless porpoise calf. malnutrition signs. size: 70cm length, 20cm girth.

code 3 adult dolphin. all other info with reefwatch

Fresh carcass code 3 adult male. no ther data with us. please check with reefwatch

decomposed baleen whale carcass with flippers decomposed. ridges not visible.

group of 3-5 animals displaying intense socialising, chases, breaches. head to head rubs; body rolls were seen.

Three carcasses of finless porpoise (1+2) were found at the mouth of the Mogral estuary in Karsargod, Kerala. All in fresh condition.

Fresh caracss of a sub adult male dolphin

Highly decomposed with jaw exposed - code 5

spinner dolphin adult charred by sun

decomposed

highly decomposed

Fresh carcass. Female adult. Has one deep linear cut under the left flipper. Possible net entanglement sign around the neck.

The carcass was decomposed

1 spinner dolphin stranded on Elliot’s Beach and was encountered by fishermen

Carcass code 4 - eye sockets and flippers decomposed or eaten. Newspaper article attached. The Hindutan Times August 19th 2022, Kolkata.

No data were collected. Informed Forest Department. at least 2 days olsd. Wounds and scratches on the body.

Dead animal

Info from Hitarth Tol, Surat

Stranded animal.

length around 4 ft

length 65 cm, width 30 cm

buried by FD, coordinates taken

A decaying body with skin heavily peeled off, perhaps a calf

A calf perhaps. Found on a sandy shore

a 14 ft long individual

Total length - 177 cm Snout to anterior insertion of flipper length- 73 cm Anterior length of flippers - 38 cm Posterior length of flippers- 23 cm Beak length - 25 cm Snout to eye length -51 cm width 76 cm

Found dead in the morning around 9:15am, was taken by KCIC and buried.

Code 3; approx length 2.5ft

Code 3, ; length 5ft 10inches, girth 2ft 3inches -

Code 3 slight bloating. Female. Bleeding mouth

Code 2. Calf. Attended by fd and wl rescuers. Post mortem conducted and buried.

Code 3

Code 4.

orca

Stranded animal

Length 1.20m juvenile; curved fin; bruising on both sides A clean carcass, although there are a couple of tiny cuts that could be from monofilament but, they seem to be only on one side and not wrapping around the body, so may only be cuts from rocks or con specifics The big linear cut on the left thorax looks like teeth marks of some type

Code 4 Length 2.5, Breadth 0.6 m Too decomposed for post mortem

Code 4

Code 3. Length 2.3m

Code 4

Stranded animal

Stranded animal

Stranded animal

Stranded animal

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35 group size with socially tight seen in 5 NM away from Cheriyapani Reef, Lakshadweep water. Survey through Nujoomul Arman Boat.

2-3 Dolphins spotted. One actively leapt out of water a few times.

10 group size Rough toothed dolphin sighted in between Agatti and Kavaratti route through Vessel Ferry survey.

During a recent fishery cruise onboard FV.Sagar Harita, north to Kochi, we have spotted a single carcass of dolphin. As the upper hump of the animal was very prominent the carcass was identified as Indian Ocean humpback dolphin. The body was almost couple of days old and was in almost in decayed condition. Belly was in busted condition and viscera was protruding out. So, it was difficult to take the morphometrics measurements of the specimen. There was no any deep external injury in the body. The upper beak was found damaged. The actual reason for the death of the animal is unknown.

It was almost 3x the size of our boat (fibre-bodied fishing boat). It was feeding on small fishes, surfacing at every 10-15 mins interval for 1 hour. We recorded a large shoal of small fishes in the area, the habitat was majorly dominated by corals.

The total length of the Animal was 11 meters. Half of the body was completely decayed. The mammal was noticed in the intertidal region and based on Photo Id it was identified as a Bryde's Whale.

Juvenile found beached live at rushikonda of Visakhapatnam alone. The length is approximately 5 feet from the photo.

Code 4 Dolphin at Calangute 5 point. Samples collected, measurements taken. Spoken with FD, animal being buried.

While out on a dolphin watching trip with Terraconscious, four dolphins were sighting. Two adults with two judi's traveling in synch.

code 4

code 2 -

Code 2

Group size of 20

Code 3 animal stranded. Bleeding near eyes and flippers. Picture showed pregnant animal with calf aborted.

Code 4 carcass of a small sized delphinid washed ashore with the skull separated from the rest of the body. The teeth count showed 46/43 UJ/LJ Left side.

A 57ft baleen whale with circumference of 22ft landed in Code 3. A female with swollen teats. Ventral pleats end just before navel. There was a bhekti net entangled around fluke and tail stock showing it was a post entanglement mortality. According to Bob Brownell, the animal seems to be very thin; or could have starved after entanglement as they survive days and weeks after such entanglement.

about ten dolphins had stranded live on the beach and were seen by firemen from Mumbai. They have described the incident in the attached article. there were young animals and adults.

2 Baleen Whales, later identified as Omura's Whale were spotted during a ferry based observation from Port Blair to Swaraj Dweep (Havelock Island).

Number of individuals: 2 Assuming a mother and juvenile. There is a video available on YouTube of this attached here. We can see two whales breathing and one tail fluke was seen before a dive.

Found Sperm whale dead and stranded with multiple points of damage

A pod of dolphins, around 5-7 were swimming. southward, visible from the shore. 845 am, at Neelankarai kottivakam side, Chennai Tamil Nadu. About 8 of them was heading from north to south direction towards Kovalam, Chennai

Single individual washed ashore

Specimen of humpback dolphin found dead. Reasons for death not known.

We heard and saw a humpback whale while on a recreation dive.

7-foot long dolphin has washed ashore. The carcass was later buried on the beach.

Length- around 4 feet Distance from shore- Observed in rocky inter tidal shore close to beach

weight ~14 kg. Lengh = ~3.5 feet

One individual seen close to shore

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Total length: 3ft

Male

Found by fisherman at Mangrol port. Forest Department took it back out to sea.

Code 2

dimensions attached.

Unidentified baleen whale carcass

Spotted dolphin