Shocking autopsy photos show toll of plastic waste on dead whale
by Erin Durkin in New York from Environment | The Guardian on (#4BCTJ)
Images show marine biologist removing 88lb worth of plastic bags from stomach of whale that died in Philippines of 'gastric shock'
- Warning: this article includes graphic images some readers may find disturbing
Graphic autopsy images have revealed the terrible toll that plastic waste took on a young whale found dead in the Philippines.
The juvenile Cuvier's beaked whale died of "gastric shock" after swallowing 88lb (40kg) of plastic bags, according to marine biologists at the D'Bone Collector Museum, a natural history institution in Davao City in the Philippines.
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