AFP quoted Ikram Sangadji, a senior official at the local water conservation agency, as saying that 10 whale, ranging in size from 2m to 6m, were found dead on a beach in East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia.
The recorded image shows a group of men trying to push the 11th surviving member of the herd, stranded on a sand beach, back into the ocean.
Finally, they took the animal - with deep cuts on his body - into the water, and it swam out to the distance to the cheers and cheers of the witnesses.
The authorities have concluded that the dead and stranded fish could be short-tailed round-headed elephants, Sangadji said.
Short-tailed round-headed whale is highly sociable and often involved in mass attacks, although scientists have yet to explain this phenomenon.
Local residents helped dig up the graves to bury the bodies of ten dead whale, carrying cuts caused by rubbing with sharp rocks. The cross-flowing flows outside the beaches of this area are likely to be a dangerous cause for the whale herd, causing them to get stuck in the rocks and coral near the shore.
Last week, a giant 23m long blue whale drifted ashore near Kupang city, the capital of Eastern Province of Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia.
In October 2019, seven round-headed whale sharks were also found dead near Kupang city.
