DENPASAR (AFP) – Indonesian animal experts were preparing on Thursday to conduct an autopsy on an 18-metre whale that died after washing up on a beach in Bali.
The sperm whale, believed to weigh many tonnes, beached itself in the east of the holiday island on Wednesday before locals and officials pushed it back out to sea.
But after swimming away it became stranded again just hours later on a different beach and died on the shore with no visible wounds, local marine and fisheries official Permana Yudiarso told AFP.
More details on Friday’s Borneo Bulletin
