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Mass Animal Deaths: October 2012
(Oct 18) Nearly 300 dead or dying loons and other fish-eating birds are found on the beaches of northwestern Michigan’s Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore the past few days — all victims of botulism that has scientists concerned about the changing ecology of the Great Lakes. (Source)
(Oct 17) Thousands of bass die-off prompts investigation in Dickinson County lakes in Iowa. (Source)
(Oct 17) Dead fish are continuing to show up on the beaches and in the water of the Neuse River in North Carolina. Some fish are floating, others are sinking to the bottom, but with a peak of 90 dead fish per foot, he estimates the total number could be in the millions. (Source)
(Oct 16) An 8.1 metre Minke whale and calf washed up on shore the Black Point Beach in Nova Scotia, Canada. (Source)
(Oct 16) The youngest of four young pilot whales rescued from a mass beach stranding on Sept. 1 in St. Lucie County, Florida died unexpectedly. The whales are the only ones that survived out of 22 sickly whales, of all ages, that beached themselves at Avalon State Park Beach. (Source)
(Oct 16) A group of long-finned pilot whales has been buried after stranding on a remote East Cape beach in New Zealand. The 51 whales came ashore in two-metre swells at Whangaparaoa Beach, near Cape Runaway, early on Sunday. Forty-four of the whales died relatively quickly from natural causes, while the other seven were injured during the stranding and were euthanised. (Source)
(Oct 15) The deaths of a dolphin, three turtles and a seven-meter, 8-ton whale shark at the weekend have illustrated the Phuket region’s losing battle to save its marine environment. (Source)
(Oct 13) Wildlife officials Friday afternoon were trying to determine what killed a young and healthy female moose found on Sylvan Lane in Weston, Massachusetts. (Source)
(Oct 10) A fresh moose carcass was discovered along the Selkirk Crest’s popular Harrison Lake Trail in Washington State prompting local Forest Service officials to issue a wildlife hazard warning. (Source)
(Oct 13) A 6m strap-toothed whale, a species of beaked whale, washed ashore at St Kilda Beach in New Zealand. (Source)
(Oct 12) In Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, an oarfish washed ashore on the bustling Medano Beach, which features a view of the end of the Baja California peninsula. Oarfish are deep-water denizens that are rarely seen. But because of their long, slender appearance, and their bright-orange dorsal fins and manes, they helped spawn myths of sea serpents and sea monsters among ancient mariners. They’ve been known to reach lengths of 30-plus feet. (Source)
A series of earthquakes may be responsible for sending a rare deep ocean fish to its death on a beach in Baja – oarfish are traditionally known as the harbinger of a powerful earthquake. There are scientific theories that deep sea fish are sensitive to the movements of tectonic plates and may act uncharacteristically before an earthquake.
Dozens of great oarfish were found washed up on the shores of Japan roughly a year before the massive March 11 earthquake. The most recent sighting was on December 21, 2011, causing a commotion among the locals that another big earthquake may soon strike Japan. (Source)
Chances of Big Quake Below Tokyo Rising – Japan government prepares plan to flee Tokyo
Seismic activity has certainly increased this month along the Ring of Fire. (Oct 12) For the second time in a week, an earthquake with a magnitude greater than 5 hit Costa Rica’s pacific coast. (Oct 1) A 5.1 magnitude earthquake struck off Mexico’s Pacific coast.
(Oct 12) THOUSANDS of fish have died in a Top End creek in the Northern Territory in Australia. (Source) A WEEKEND downpour in the Northern Territory has resulted in thousands of fish dying in the Katherine River. The mass fish kill at the popular river is thought to have been due to a combination of warmer temperatures and heavy rains on the weekend washing organic matter into the waterways. (Source)
(Oct 10) A post mortem examination on the 11ft female juvenile whale which died after it beached at Fraisthorpe in the UK showed it was many miles from its usual feeding grounds and hadn’t fed for some time. The Sowerby’s beaked whale died from a bacterial infection of the brain, called vibrio vulnificus. (Source)
