Australian wildlife experts were taking measurements and samples from whales that had beached on the shores of Western Australia on Thursday (April 25), with the intent of determining the cause of the mass stranding event. Fauna Holly Raudino, the Senior Marine Research Scientist at Western Australia's Parks And Wildlife Service, said there could be a variety of causes, but the priority of taking samples was to rule out infectious diseases having caused the incident. Multiple vessels and a spotter plane were monitoring the waters near the Toby Inlet estuary in Geographe Bay in order to make certain that the whales would not 're-strand', according to the organisation's Regional Wildlife Officer, Pia Courtis, adding that so far it had not been the case. In July last year, more than 50 pilot whales died after stranding on a remote Western Australia beach. The state experienced its largest whale stranding at Dunsborough in 1996 when 320 pilot whales beached themselves. Pilot whales are known for their tight-k

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There's a variety of reasons, particularly with this species, the longfin pilot whales.

So sometimes it might be a member of the pod is ill and the others follow.

Sometimes it might be some kind of noise disturbance.

Disease can be a factor, so it's very varied.

We're taking a number of samples, particularly the priorities to exclude infectious diseases.

So we've got vessels out on the water and we've also got spotter plane up in the air

that's doing searches over every couple of hours just to see where they are.

And so far so good.

They haven't made it back to shore, but we will keep monitoring them.

So it's quite important that we remove the dead whales from the water.

So that's what you can see.

We try.

We try to get them up out of the water line to stop encouraging the other whales that were in the water

to re-strand or to strand back again.

Every whale stranding is different and there's different circumstances and different situations.

So it's hard to say.

I mean, I guess we've learnt some things from Chains Beach.

So we've put them into play here.

And yeah, it's hard to tell.

It's a different location, but we'll try and take as many samples as we can to,

to see if there's anything happening in the population.

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We hope everything goes out the way that it should be.

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