Researchers are trying to rethink the way we dispose of whale carcasses at sea in a more environmentally sustainable way. New findings have uncovered a method which could determine the best location and time to tow the whale bodies out to sea.
Researchers are trying to rethink the way we dispose of whale carcasses at sea in a more environmentally sustainable way.
But there's a push to improve the way we return the carcasses to deeper waters after a string of whale strandings on the East Australian Coastline."Whales serve a huge ecosystem role by providing large amounts of nutrients at higher levels and then lower troughic levels or lower levels in the environment where creatures might not have access to huge amounts of nutrients.
"It was interesting to see that one might initially think oh you put it into a current that goes south and then it will drift south but this not what happened. Trying to understand where the main wind direction will be over a number of days is quite important to determine where the best location is."
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