LA JOLLA -- A sperm whale was to swim it off the each," that washed ashore was pushed Keith Yip, Curator of Mammals back into the sea by whale with Seaworld San Diego, said. experts and volunteers after The whale was 15 to 18 feet they treated it for wounds long and an estimated 3,000 from rocks. pounds. The whale that came ashore Presumed to be a male, he Sunday evening near La Jolla appeared to be a young whale cut himself and was bleeding but not a newborn, Yip said. after rolling around in the The whale likely beached rocky shoreline. itself because it was either SeaWorld San Diego employees, sick or lost, and if it is including a veterinarian and sick it could be back again, a curator, drew blood samples authorities said. from the whale, injected it According to several whale with antibiotics and steroids experts, some 2,000 whales then pushed him back into the beach themselves every year ocean for about a quarter world-wide. mile. The majority of them "What we decided to do in the eventually die. best interest of this animal
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