police officer animal rescue worker and nearly a hundred people involved Together they tried to recover the carcass of a nine-metre female whale shark that washed up dead on each beach near Santa Marianita, Ecuador.
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A local fisherman spotted a 16-ton shark as it rolled into the waves. While officials try to roll the shark into the sea with oats and miners. Volunteers used hoses and suction tubes to run water over the animal’s gills and held a shade to protect its skin from the scorching sun.
“They did their best,” said eyewitness Tanya Leyman.
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even after trying my best The animal died after six hours. This is because the whale shark’s cartilage is not designed to support the weight of the musty without the aid of water.
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This stranding was the first in the area. Whale shark strandings occur elsewhere in the world, including along the Αfrican and southern Αustralian coastlines. Most of these events hauer hae inʋolʋed juʋenile, an animal much smaller than this large woman. These gentle giants are thought to have been beached due to sudden changes in water temperature and violent actions. In this case, the animal was sick. “They ended up having an autopsy in a nearby town. “They found that the shark had an infection in the blood stream,” Layman explains. This is why she did it herself.”
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Vests and kites from local kite schools are used to protect the shark’s skin м>
