Rare Species Found Dead

Two rare True Beaked whales were found dead on the beach at Buffels Bay near Knysna, the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) said on Monday. Knysna station commander Rein Hofmeyr said the NSRI was told at about 4pm on Sunday that a whale had beached itself. A 4.6-metre-long adult was found dead in a rock pool. "A short while later a second female True Beaked whale, a 3.4 metre sub-adult, was found on the beach, also dead," he said. Hofmeyr said that bystanders who found the whale said it had been alive and they had tried to get it back into the sea, but it washed up on the beach again and died...