{"id":182,"date":"2025-08-16T19:44:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T19:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lingerrose.com\/?p=182"},"modified":"2025-08-16T19:44:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T19:44:18","slug":"dead-whale-washes-up-on-shore-what-they-found-in-his-stomach-will-break-your-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lingerrose.com\/?p=182","title":{"rendered":"Dead Whale Washes Up On Shore, What They Found In His Stomach Will Break Your Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When a young and seemingly healthy whale washes up dead on shore scientists go to work trying to uncover what killed the marine giant. \u00a0\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-186\" src=\"https:\/\/lingerrose.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/980x1-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"774\" height=\"511\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lingerrose.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/980x1-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lingerrose.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/980x1-768x507.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lingerrose.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/980x1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 774px) 100vw, 774px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Time and time again, researchers come to the same heartbreaking conclusion. In July of 2013, a young male whale washed up on the shores of Terschelling, a northern island in the Netherlands. When the whale was first discovered he was still alive, but rescuers were unable to save him. Researchers took a look inside of the unnaturally bloated whale to see what caused his premature death.<\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-185\" src=\"https:\/\/lingerrose.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/someone-got-caught-in-fishing-net21-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lingerrose.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/someone-got-caught-in-fishing-net21-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lingerrose.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/someone-got-caught-in-fishing-net21.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"jps-content jps-clearfix\">Sadly, this whale is far from the only one.In 2015, a mature sperm whale was found stranded near the town of Tongshi in Taiwan. Rescuers were able to successfully return the whale to sea, but only 3-days later the very same whale washed up dead on shore.<\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-184\" src=\"https:\/\/lingerrose.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/someone-got-caught-in-fishing-net11-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"552\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lingerrose.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/someone-got-caught-in-fishing-net11-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lingerrose.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/someone-got-caught-in-fishing-net11.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 552px) 100vw, 552px\" \/><\/div>\n<div>When researchers did some digging into his cause of death they once again uncovered a stomach full of plastic bags and fishing nets. Since sperm whales consume 80% of their diet in squid, it\u2019s assumed they may confuse plastic for squid. Still, regardless of what marine animals eat, more and more species from all around the world are turning up dead with bellies full of plastic.<\/div>\n<div class=\"jps-the-content jps-last-slide\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"wraxi\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"googlepublisherpluginad\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a young and seemingly healthy whale washes up dead on shore scientists go to work trying to uncover what &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Dead Whale Washes Up On Shore, What They Found In His Stomach Will Break Your Heart\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/lingerrose.com\/?p=182#more-182\" aria-label=\"Read more about Dead Whale Washes Up On Shore, What They Found In His Stomach Will Break Your Heart\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-mystery"],"a3_pvc":{"activated":false,"total_views":0,"today_views":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lingerrose.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lingerrose.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lingerrose.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lingerrose.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lingerrose.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lingerrose.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188,"href":"https:\/\/lingerrose.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lingerrose.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lingerrose.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lingerrose.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}