When the young pilot whale washed ashore in Allenhurst, New Jersey on Sep. 24, it was still alive but died shortly afterwards. It took several days and a necropsy before the cause of death could be determined – a .30-caliber bullet which had penetrated the mammal's jaw causing a massive infection and starvation.
Pilot whale underweight
The short-finned male pilot whale which was around 10-11 feet long should have weighed roughly around 1,000 pounds. However, when the young male washed ashore, it was only two-thirds of that weight, 750 pounds. At first glance, what killed the underweight whale was a puzzle. It was only after a necrospy was performed that the .30-caliber bullet was discovered.
Bob Schoelkopf, the founding director of the Marine Mammal Stranding Center in Brigantine, told Ben Horowitz of The Star-Ledger, that the bullet wound had closed over, causing a massive infection that left it unable to eat. "It literally died of starvation." Schoelkopf said, adding that the whale had "probably traveled quite a distance before it became so weak that it washed ashore."
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