foreign [Music] have never seen anything like that the Drone vision of these pilot whales which are larger and offshore species were all huddled up together in relatively shallow water so first of all you first you see this grouping of these whales all together or potentially Dolphins we won't get into that right now but these animals were all grouped up very close together doing unusual behavior so it was just what was going on and so what we do know is that pilot whales are usually or at least a common species that we know that strand but
often when we see them they've already stranded on the beach so to see Behavior like this could this potentially be a social thing that's going on which most likely it was or one of the things I mentioned could it be pre-stranding behavior that we now have a bird's eye view of it's incredible the moment any pilot whale or any whale come to shore the clock starts ticking in terms of their survival and we know through research that animals that have been put back to sea with tags that these animals are able to resume life and
resume deep diving up to a thousand meters or so so there is good evidence to show that animals can be helped and they can be put back out there in a safe manner but it all requires good Logistics and good timing and favorable weather conditions it could be in this case pre-stranding we should you'd say that maybe they were avoiding a predator nope not in this case maybe they were navigating and they came too close nope not in this case they were just sitting there uh or or maybe they were following a sick individual potentially
that could be the case other things could be sound acoustic pollution where's humans we're really loud but we're even louder in the ocean and so this sound could potentially be disrupting these animals we just don't know there are so many different factors but knowing that we have impacts on land and in the marine environment as humans is something for us scientists to try and manage so we can best protect these creatures [Music] foreign
