Sightings and Strandings

2M in Length All teeth appeared intact Found on the Shore, 20M in-land Apparent patterned trauma marks on the uppersidel/keel from sharp bite

three whales, one smaller than the other two were seen moving south by dive staff and fishers. a video was shared by fishers Ram and Vithal.

Shared by Jessica Luis, from the Mumbai Sea Swimmers group.

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It was an individual, most likely a male, who may have floated into the deep ocean. No measurements could be recorded because the carcass was not located again.

Ventral part was ruptured

Ventral part was ruptured

fresh dead specimen found close to mandvi beach. Female sub adult. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Pranav-Pandya-2/publication/355818062_RECORDS_OF_INDO-PACIFIC_FINLESS_PORPOISE_NEOPHOCAENA_PHOCAENOIDES_G_CUVIER_1829_FROM_NORTHERN_GULF_OF_KACHCHH_COAST_GUJARAT_WESTERN_INDIA/links/617fe564eef53e51e11564c3/RECORDS-OF-INDO-PACIFIC-FINLESS-PORPOISE-NEOPHOCAENA-PHOCAENOIDES-G-CUVIER-1829-FROM-NORTHERN-GULF-OF-KACHCHH-COAST-GUJARAT-WESTERN-INDIA.pdf

Male specimen 2-meter long beak length 31cm fluke length 33 cm as per the veterinarian expert Dr. Satkthivel CMFRI

Code-4

Code-2

Code-3, Male

Code-3, young individual

Code-2 Length - 1.30m Breadth - 33cm

Code-2

Code - 3, approx. - 1.4m

Code - 2, Male, Scars possibly through large gill nets or trawlers

One or two individuals.

Code-3, around 48 pairs of teeth on the lower jaw

Description of dead Spinner Dolphin. Weight: 45 Kg. Lenth-5'9” Upper Teeth-39 pair Lower Teeth-46pair

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.

Decomposed floating carcass not brought to shore

tursiops calf with rake marks, gas build up under the skin and injury to the fluke

Carcass stranded in highly decomposed state. code 4

Fresh specimen. No data provided other than pictures. Please contact Reefwatch and Goa FD.

Highly decomposed and charred by the sun .

Dolphins were seen close to shore, breaking the waves with atleast one young one breaching. gropu size of 5-6 indidivuals.

a bottlenose dolphin stranded alive with small damage on the tail fluke. Local fishermen pushed it back into the ocean.

Two individuals (approx 1m, 50cm) found stranded about a km apart at Kannur beach.

Code 3 adult individual

The dolphin was found stranded behind luxury hotel Fisherman’s Cove, around 8.40 a.m. on Saturday in the inter-tidal waters, unable to swim back.

3-4 Dolphins in the sea. They were circling around the region between two seawalls. We felt that the dolphins were moving closer to the rocky seawall as the evening progressed. The sightings were between 5.15 to 6.30 PM.

Stranded animal

mosty likely to be Tursiops

A calf with fetal folds

length around 28 ft

a subadult buried by FD, coordinates taken

length 65 cm

Length 59 ft, entangled in nets and looks skinny. Probably a blue whale

Released back by locals

A small decayed dolphin carcass. Perhaps a Humpback dolphin

A dead, bloated adult with skin peeling off

Total length- 8.4 feet Mouth to ventral side -6.1 feet girth -2.6 feet single adult - female Distance from the shore 4-5 meters

Code 2 all other details with Manisha . Fishing net in the gut.

Code 2. All other details with Reefwatch

Code 3, length 2m; girth 45cm - has a strange deforming with the posterier edge of the dorsal fin /hump extending over the tail stock too. see pictures.

Code 4, Abdominal area is totally ripped open with exposed repro and dig organs Length and girth as noted seem to be wrong(length of 46cm) based on photos

length 1m, girth 1 ft, code 4

Code 2. length: 2.3m and girth: 55cm, female, died due to ingestion of fishing net.

Code 2. Necroposy performed, Forest Department came and later buried

Code 2. Had fishing net in its gut. measurements taken.

a just born calf.

Stranded finless porpoise

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.

group of three Killer whales spotted off shore of the Eastern side of Kadmat Island in Lakshadweep

live blue whale entrapped in a purse seine net. fishermen say that they cut the net and released the whale

code 4

Code 4,

no data collected before burying. carcass was in code 3. only pictures attached here.

Code 2 - fresh very young animal washed ashore. fishermen buried the same with a ceremony

Code 2 dolphin washed ashore. Had fetal curves. FD collected sample.