New whale strandings in NZ (part III)

Just returned from another stranding, this one a male Orca ~ 5 metres long, and at least a week dead. This is my first Orca; there are better pictures on another camera (I'm afraid I didn't have mine handy at the beginning of the exercise), so I'll post those online soon. Have a ton of video this time, so if I can figure out how to post it I'll try.

Fortunately, this time we had a grader handy, so a rather substantial hole was dug for us.

Stomach, effectively empty ... except for a few (trace) fish bones.
 

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