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The stranding of a 12-foot Cuviers beaked whale on a beach south of Boston in early April 2006 was a rare event in New England, although strandings of pilot whales and other marine mammals are not unusual. The New England Aquarium collaborated with WHOI to bring the beaked whale to the new necropsy/CT scanning facility at WHOI for forensic studies to try to determine whay may have caused it to strand and die. A monorail system moves large mammals through the faciltiy, where WHOI biologists Michael Moore (also a licensed veterinarian) and Darlene Ketten and others performed the necropsy. (Photo by Tom Kleindinst, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)[back]
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