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This young whale died with 88 pounds of plastic in its stomach. In 15 march 2019, A whale found dead in Davao City which caught nation’s attention. The whale likely starved because its stomach was full of plastic, not food. The curators at a natural history museum in Davao City, the Philippines, got a call about the incident from the local marine agency. A ZIPHIUS CAVIROSTRIS WHALE in the Davao Gulf was vomiting blood and was very likely going to die shortly. They should come pick up its body. Darrell Blatchley, a marine mammal expert and the curator at the D’Bone Collector Museum in Davao City, brought the whale back to the lab to open it up for a necropsy, he found something shocking: more than 88 pounds of plastic waste jammed into its belly. THE CURVIER BEAKED WHALE, a young male about 15 feet long and weighing 1,100 pounds, likely died of starvation and dehydration brought on by the plastic stuffing its belly. Whales absorb water from...