Whale Strandings

Deep sea marine mammals that strand on gently sloping sandy areas. Ifiis their navigational aid. They get into these shallower waters, like you said, maybe they were chasing something to eat, all of a sudden they find themselves out of place. Ye and so there's this idea that if one becomes stranded, especially if this is a leader that's leading a poe, as long as they're stranded, the other members of the pot are going to hang around and stick with that one. It's called the social caring hypothesis,. This idea that whales allow themselves to become stranded because a a member of their pod has come stranded and they're worried about them, basically.