Another rare-beaked whale washed up along the waters of Bridgehampton, N.Y., Monday.
It was the second in a matter of days throughout the area, The Southampton Press reported. The first was found dead. A beach runner found the second alive, before it perished after being pushed back into the water.
"It's the first I've seen in six years," James Sullivan, a technician at the Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation told The Press. "These guys should be a lot further out."
"The big question is whether or not this correlates with the problems with the dolphin die-offs," Sullivan told. Several whales of its kind had perished in summer 2012.
The whale perished after it went back into the water The Press reported. Officials found it over half a mile away.
"It has been ID'd as a female true's beaked whale. Very rare," Kim Durham from the Foundation told The International Business Times about the first whale. "We don't get many encounters with them, dead or alive."When dealing with a federally protected marine animal, we suggest not to take action until you report it," Durham told The Press. "More importantly, moving it is not in the animal's best interest. The animal is on the beach for a reason. There is also potential to really hurt yourself."
"She shouldn't have been that skinny," Durham told The Press. "We'll find out if it was parasites or disease that made her sick."
Durham came across the species west of Flying Point Beach, before it died east of Gin Lane.
"They tried to get us to put it in the pickup truck, and it slid right out," Corey Swezey, a highway department employee told The Press.
"It was a really beautiful whale," Chris Brenner, second assistant chief at the Southhampton Volunteer Fire Department told Newsday.
