© AFP Photo/Toshifumi KitamuraLocal government officers stand beside melon-headed whales washed up on the shore of Hokota, northeast of Tokyo, April 10, 2015
156 melon-headed whales, also known as electra dolphins, were reported to have been
washed ashore on Japan's Pacific Coast last Friday. The mass beaching has prompted fears of a repeat of the devastating 9.0 earthquake in Japan on March 11th, 2011, that led to the Fukushima nuclear disaster. A week prior to the massive earthquake,
50 melon-headed whales had beached themselves on the coast of eastern Japan.
Japanese officials minimized the importance of any such connection, while the AFP was quick to point out a lack of scientific evidence linking the events. Such a lack of evidence is expected. Science programs have long been held back from comprehensively exploring earth-changes phenomena due to the industrious and disproportionate funding of anthropogenic global warming schemes. Segmentation of science has also limited progress and insight as few researchers are supported in reaching outside the scope of their particular fields, often leading to inadequate explanations for anomalous events.
Senior researcher at the National Museum of Nature and Science, Tadasu Yamadao suggested the dolphins may have been confused and got lost.
"Sonar waves the dolphins emit might have been absorbed in the shoals, which could cause them to lose their sense of direction," Yamadao told the
Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper.
However, a coast guard official told the AFP, "We see one or two whales washing ashore a year, but
this may be the first time we have found over 100 of them on a beach."
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