214 grey whales washed up dead in 2019. It could happen again in 2020
And then, as now, the animals appeared to be starving, said Calambokidis. Not just the normal skinny that happens as fat stores are used on a long migration, but so emaciated that when they cut into the skin during a necropsy, the blubber felt dry.
“I know it’s kind of hard to imagine, a blubber area without any oil in it.”
Necropsies in B.C. showed the same thing, but experts don’t know why.