"Grisly examples abound. In 2008, two sperm whales stranded on the California coast were found to have a huge amount -- 205 kilos (450 pounds) in one alone -- of fish nets and other synthetic debris in their guts. One of the 50-foot (15-metre) animals had a ruptured stomach, and the other, half-starved, had a large plug of wadded plastic blocking its digestive tract.
Seven male sperm whales stranded on the Adriatic coast of southern Italy in 2009 were stuffed with half-digested squids beaks, fishing hooks, ropes and plastic objects."
Marlowe Hood, reporter
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"The exotic species also is mysterious. It was not officially described in scientific literature until 1997." - Nigella Hillgarth, executive director of Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
"The exotic species also is mysterious. It was not officially described in scientific literature until 1997." - Nigella Hillgarth, executive director of Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
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