Pilot whales
Officials in boats monitor the scene where dozens of pilot whales are stranded in shallow water in a remote area of Florida’s Everglades National Park, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2013. (Lynne Sladky / AP)
Twenty-five pilot whales were found dead off Kice Island, Fla., on Thursday. Blair Mase of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said the state had experienced an “unusual” amount of pilot whale strandings in the last year and that NOAA was looking into it.
National Park Rangers and NOAA specialists search the ocean for stranded pilot whales,Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013, in the Everglades National Park, Fla. (Alan Diaz / AP)
Rebeccah Hazelkorn a biologist for Mote Marine Laboratory helps remove a dead pilot whale from the water to be transported to a facility for a necropsy by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Fisheries Service on January 21, 2014 in Estero, Florida. (Joe Raedle / Getty Images)
Rebeccah Hazelkorn a biologist for Mote Marine Laboratory helps remove a dead pilot whale from the water to be transported to a facility for a necropsy by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Fisheries Service on January 21, 2014 in Estero, Florida. (Joe Raedle / Getty Images)
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Rebeccah Hazelkorn a biologist for Mote Marine Laboratory prepares to cut into the skin of a dead pilot whale as she helps remove it from the water to be transported to a facility for a necropsy by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Fisheries Service on January 21, 2014 in Estero, Florida. (Joe Raedle / Getty Images)
People stand on the beach where two dead pilot whales lie in the water in a remote area of Florida’s Everglades National Park, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2013. Nearly four dozen pilot whales were stranded in shallow water in the area. Four of the whales had to be euthanized, and six others already had died, said Blair Mase, the marine mammal stranding network coordinator for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. (Lynne Sladky / AP)
People watch as a dead pilot whale is prepared to be transported to a facility for a necropsy by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Fisheries Service on January 21, 2014 in Estero, Florida. The whale is was of eight pilot whales that died after their group swam into the shallow waters near Lovers Key State Park. (Joe Raedle / Getty Images)
People watch as a dead pilot whale is transported to a facility for a necropsy by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Fisheries Service on January 21, 2014 in Estero, Florida. (Joe Raedle / Getty Images)