Veterinarians, biologists and pathologists identified the Orca whale found beached on Florida’s coast a geriatric female who had died as a result of illness. WESH’s Amanda Dukes reports.
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I hope her family is doing ok. Orcas love their family a lot.
Never sell short the power of a submersible sonar Ping .
Biden: My green energy policies caused this whale’s demise. We need more whale skeleton on display.
Do you think telling us that she was diseased is good? That is not good. When the ocean goes bad, the rest of the world will shortly follow. We are 75% ocean. Disease in our ocean animals shows a serious problem.
Climate change. It’s a thing .
She was older than they first said. At least she didn’t have ten pounds of plastic in her guts. But she looked like she was healthy on the exterior.
Disease is every where. Viruses, bacteria, immune related, genetic abnormalities do exist you know.
I believe that whale died because it was sick of hearing about George Santos.
I’m sure Santos could have cured her 🤣
How Jew-ish of you
Orcas can’t spread respiratory disease so it must be an STD
The whale got better health care diagnosis that Ron DeSantis (George Santos with another alias?) would deny to people in Florida, as he wants to take away your healthcare.
Yeah. Depression:s
The Orca received his 2nd Pfizer booster shot on January 7th.
No it came to florida to find more documents at MaraLardgo 😂🎉
@Okk and instead found docs at bidens 😂😂
@Okk and found 2 more stacks at Uncle Joes… lol
What pod was she from? I had no idea they went anywhere near Florida. I thought they preferred cooler waters.
She probably got lost,maybe she had difficulty echolocating.
There are orcas in the Caribbean and in the Gulf of Mexico. While they don’t usually come close to the main land every once in a while we see them. Same for Great Whites that come down every fall.
Magnetic field has been out of frequency for some time..
Thanks for the responses! Im in the PNW. Always nice to learn more about the orca’s!
Chloe 🙁
Awful 😢 so very sad
Very surprised they didn’t say it died from climate change 😂
I’m surprised a Trump supporter didn’t say it was because of the vaccine 🤣
@MayBach Yard dude no kidding 🤣🤣 I’m actually very surprised I haven’t seen a comment like that. Every weather disaster, person falling ill, or even a freaking car crashes are blamed on the vaccine 🤣
Cardiac Arrest.
Or the vaccine, right?
I read somewhere they get kidney disease a lot.
Or was it murder?!?!
Climate change
Bet Seaworld is hiding something
So did they chop it up and pass it out like they did with Shamu?
Orcas are not whales.
Are you on a phone? An orca is a toothed whale.
@Jonathan Sterling more of a dolphin
@尼安德鲁特
The argument is “they are not whales”. But in fact even dolphins are a subspecies of whales. Orcas are in fact whales.
I ho that, whatever illness the orca had, it is not widespread.
I hope they throw the soft tissue back to it’s natural resting place in the food chain… a lot of scavengers probably saw the carcass n r still sitting there waiting…
they were really excited for that meal and they took it from them
They’re just hiding the fact that it was a cardiac arrest. The doctors that vaccinated this whale should be in JAIL!
😢😢😢😢
If you haven’t seen it, check out the documentary “The Whale” 2011… “The true story of Luna…”
Spoiler alert:
What they could have done, what should happen if the opportunity ever presents itself again, is for some entrepreneur to befriend the thing, and lure it to some reasonably deserted cove. The possibilities branch out from there. A real-life Flipper. Maybe hire a trainer and broadcast it. Make sure it is kept company 24/7 so it doesn’t run off. There might be some difficulties, but it could be the most amazing experience a diver could ever have. Too bad they missed that opportunity.
It was already dead when found.
@dlbstl
My post was about orcas generally, not that situation. But that’s certainly true, dead whales don’t do tricks.
free food for the poor.
She was beautiful.
RIP Dear 🙏
Died from Coved…..you people are stupid because the whales was old and just died that all.. natural causes
She died because she was fed up with Biden’s policies. Poor thing committed suicide. 😞
Kneecropsy
Pollution and radiation.
Had to hurry before the explosion.
Because all the nasty racist Hispanics throw oil and garbage everywhere. I get into arguments with them and they don’t ever see what the issue is.
They should cut it up into whale 🐳 steaks 🥩 and feed the homeless
Wow….. Climate change
No…. More like those ridiculous wind turbines they keep putting far out at sea
How do they know the orca identified as a female? 🐳 🤷🏻♂️
RIP whale 🐳
STOP PUTTING WIND TURBINES IN THE OCEAN!!!!!!
She died from the American diet 😔
she died from all the stupidity that leak out of Florida people
Do they have an ID as to whom this whale was and what pod she was from? I know that very close tabs are taken on the Puget Sound pods, J, K &L. Sad, but she was an elder so not unexpected.
J, k and L pods are specific to the resident ecotype orcas in the Pacific.
There are different ecotypes in the Atlantic. Iberian orcas off the coast of Spain and icelandic orcas are a couple of the Atlantic ecotypes.
They don’t mention the type of orca this is. Or what pod she came from. That’s actually why I clicked on this video. To see if they mentioned the ecotype. I’m pretty curious about it myself. The orcas in the gulf of Mexico are the closest population that I am aware of. Which isn’t even an Atlantic type at all.
They are stranded from starvation and chemical poisoning from them cocaine fentanyl packages left all over. They sure won’t say so. We’re all dying too. On land they cook it and poison us with fumes.
Interesting story .. I hope there is a follow up.
Sad
Too much oil spill toxins and corporate pollution in the oceans.
They die because God ruined the world with man….. and those wide hip B**** WHO POP FOOTBALL TEAMS only to walk funny as s*** as seniors…. 😂
Whale’s brain was fried by active sonar, military submarines use passive sonar during maneuvers when they are in stealth mode, and then afterwards, turn active sonar back on and like a microwave cooks whatever is in front of ship ,,, the wale.
At first they said it was a 6 year old. It doesn’t look geriatric, it looks young. These mammals can live to 90 in the wild. Had there been any navy or commercial sonar mapping or geological/oil surveying or deep explosions? These affect whales adversely. Whales in the North Atlantic contend with this.
all those covid masks in the ocean. good job sheeple
Yeah killer whales are killing themselves… Anybody else in on this? I get it
it was because the whale had a wokeness for the deep-state kabal of liberal left radical abortion reform and ate fat-boy de-santanis then died from stupidity poisoning! praise jesus
Baloney. 6 dead whales in one month. All due to sonic booms for a stupid wind farms. This is not accurate
STOP THE BLEACH!!! ✋️
Dang, was really hoping a Family Guy incident here lol