Rescued whale dies at IMMS

A young male pygmy killer whale, rescued from the shore of Cat Island in south Mississippi, was sickened and died Nov. 19, according to Mobi Solangi, executive director of the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies (IMMS) in Biloxi. The mammal had been recovering since its rescue Sept. 12, but was not eating Nov. 17 and started throwing up when veterinarians were examining it. The 185-pound whale went into convulsions around 2:30 a.m. Wednesday and died. “That was the only marine mammal that showed up live this year,” Solangi said, after hundreds of dolphins have washed up dead. Solangi believes the environmental stresses from the Mississippi River flooding and the Bonnet Carre Spillway opening could have caused or contributed to the death. The whale will be sent to the Mississippi State veterinary school for a necropsy. (Source: Sun Herald 11/20/19)https://www.sunherald.com/news/local/counties/harrison-county/article237579559.html