The decomposing remains of a 60-ton sperm whale have drifted onto a busy street in Taiwan, causing cars and nearby stores to be flooded with food and offal as well as heavy traffic. casting for many hours.
Food and intestines are scattered on this street in Tainan, Taiwan, after the decomposing internal organs of the sperm whale in the background led it to explore. Taiwan Apple Daily via Reuters
Tainan residents learned a lesson in whale biology after the carcass of a 60-ton sperm whale decomposed on a busy street, flooding cars and nearby stores with food and internal organs as well as traffic congestion for many hours.
The 56-foot-long whale’s internal organs were allowed to escape in the southern city of Tainan due to internal decomposition fumes as it lay on a truck being transported by researchers for an autopsy. Residents and shopkeepers wore masks while trying to clean up piles of spilled trash and intestines.
“I really stink. The smell of this food and other things coming out on the street is disgusting and the smell is really terrible,” BBC News quoted a Tainan resident as saying.
A truck carries the carcass of a 17-meter-long sperm whale to National Cheng Kung University in Tainan, southern Taiwan for an autopsy, January 26, 2004. The whale stranded and died on a beach in southwestern Yunlin County on January 17. Due to internal decomposition, the whale’s organs were removed from its body on the way to the university laboratory.
The whale died on January 17 after stranding on the island’s southwest coast.
Researchers at National Cheng Kung University in Tainan said there were enough remaining whales for marine biologists to examine.
“More than 100 Tainan City residents, mostly men, came to the autopsy to ‘experience’ the size of its penis,” the newspaper reported.
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