After a five - twenty-four hours battle , a stranded pilot heavyweight in Thailand gave up the ghost . After conducting an postmortem at the weekend , marine biologists found the whale ’s belly to be packed withover 80 plastic bags , leave no doubt as to what killed the poor blower .
Events began at the beginning of last week , when the low manful short - finned original giant was found cohere to life up a canal in Songkhla province , near the delimitation with Malaysia . This sparked a five - solar day endeavour by conservation official to preserve the beast ’s liveliness , using buoy to keep the giant afloat , and umbrellas to harbour it from the Sun .
But when the animalvomited up five plastic bags , those attempt to care for the whale realized that there was something else afoot . Unfortunately , the whale could not be saved by the consecrate saving efforts , and when the officials conducted an PM of the animate being to see if they could figure out what may have lead to its tragic decease , they found an dismaying 80 credit card base lodged in its belly .
Weighing roughly 8 kilogram ( 18 pounds ) , the mass of plastic was so large it in effect preclude the hulk from eating anything , and thus it lust to dying . “ If you have 80 plastic pocketbook in your breadbasket , you die , ” maritime biologist Thon Thamrongnawasawat sum up succinctlyto AFP .
The natural diet of cowcatcher whale includes fish and octopus , but the whales mainly give on calamari . It is more than likely that the whale was mistaking the floating plastic bag in the sea for calamari , and that as the situation father more desperate , and the whale hungrier , it became distressed and disorientate , with the highly social animate being ending up on its own in the Thai canal .
The result – while not unprecedented – is being face at in a unexampled illumination as people are becoming more and more aware of thedevastating impactthat single - use plastic is get on the marine surround .
In fact , Thailand is one of the worst offenders in the world , as it is one of the gravid user of plastic grip , with every single person using an norm of a staggeringeight bags every single day . The end of this whale might not be in pure vain , as campaigners are fighting to get Thai people to interchange their posture , distinguish and understand the implications of single - exercise charge plate , and switch to using reusable bag instead .
