The decayed body of a 35-foot-long humpback whale washed onto the beach around 1 pm on Saturday. Hundreds of people looked on as the BMC struggled to clear the carcass. This is the second such instance of a whale being washed ashore in as many days. On Friday, another humpback whale washed onto the Uran beach with gashes on its body. This has left marine biologists wondering whether some whales have been injured while migrating through Mumbai waters. Head of Bombay Natural History Society’s maritime conservation programme, Deepak Apte, said that since the whale was dead and its carcass decaying, it had to be removed immediately and disposed of. “It’s possible that the whale had a natural death, but there is also a good chance that it was hit by propellers of a ship while it was probably migrating.”
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