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This young whale died with 88 pounds of plastic in its stomach In 15 march 2019, A whale found dead in Davao City which caught nation’s attention. The whale likely starved because its stomach was full of plastic, not food. THE curators at a natural history museum in Davao City, the Philippines, got a call about the incident from the local marine agency. A ZIPHIUS CAVIROSTRIS WHALE in the Davao Gulf was vomiting blood and was very likely going to die shortly. They should come pick up its body. Darrell Blatchley, a marine mammal expert and the curator at the D’Bone Collector Museum in Davao City, brought the whale back to the lab to open it up for a necropsy, he found something shocking: more than 88 pounds of plastic waste jammed into its belly. IN THE DAVAO GULF. THE CURVIER BEAKED WHALE, a young male about 15 feet long and weighing 1,100 pounds, likely died of starvation and dehydration brought on by the plastic stuffing its belly. Whales absorb water from the food they