PORTLAND, Ore. (CBS) — A whale carcass that washed up on Friday in the Philippines died of “dehydration and starvation” after consuming 40 kilograms (88 pounds) of plastic bags, scientists said.
According to Darrell Blatchley, the D’Bone Collector Museum president and founder, the whale had been vomiting blood before it died.
The whale was taken to the museum for a necropsy at around 11 am local and found the whale had died due to plastic ingestion.
They found rice sacks, grocery bags, banana plantation bags and general plastic bags said the museum.
In the last 10 years, they had recovered 61 whales and dolphins of which 57 have died due to fishing nets, dynamite dishing and plastic garbage.
