巨大(な) 鯨 washes up on Indonesian beach

Curious onlookers crowded the shore of coastal Kupang city as officials scrambled to figure out what to do with the bloated carcass

Curious onlookers (人が)群がるd the shore of 沿岸の Kupang city as 公式の/役人s 緊急発進するd to 人物/姿/数字 out what to do with the bloated carcass

A 巨大(な) 23-metre (75-foot) 鯨 簡潔に washed up 近づく a beach in Indonesia but it was 不明瞭な how the enormous 海洋 哺乳動物 died, a 自然保護 公式の/役人 said Wednesday.

Curious onlookers (人が)群がるd the shore of 沿岸の Kupang city as 公式の/役人s 緊急発進するd to 人物/姿/数字 out what to do with the bloated carcass, which was first spotted on Tuesday.

But the 巨大(な) creature was washed 支援する to sea on Wednesday before it could be brought to shore for an examination.

"We think that it's a blue 鯨 but we don't know what 原因(となる)d its death," said 地元の 自然保護 公式の/役人 Lidya Tesa Saputra.

"It looks like it didn't die here and may have been 死んだ for some time," she 追加するd.

Blue 鯨s are the largest animals in 存在, 重さを計るing up to 200 トンs and growing as long as 32 metres.

The creature, whose tongue alone can 重さを計る as much as an elephant, has an 普通の/平均(する) lifespan of 80 to 90 years, によれば 国家の Geographic.

Seven 操縦する 鯨s were 設立する dead 近づく Kupang last October.

Cross-現在のs off the beach 提起する/ポーズをとる a danger to 鯨s as they can get caught between 暗礁s の近くに to shore.

In 2018, a sperm 鯨 was 設立する dead in Indonesia with more than 100 plastic cups and 25 plastic 捕らえる、獲得するs in its stomach, raising 関心s about the Southeast Asian 群島's 大規模な 海洋 rubbish problem.

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