A shocking 88lb (40kg) of plastic bags were removed from the stomach of a whale that died in the Philippines. The plastic material included 16 rice sacks, four banana plantation-style bags and many disposable plastic shopping bags. The young Cuvier’s beaked whale died of 'gastric shock' after swallowing the plastic, according to marine biologists at the D’Bone Collector Museum, a natural history institution in Davao City in the Philippines
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Plastic bags pulled out of whale's stomach during autopsy
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