Toxic Whale..

The newspaper International Herald Tribute relates that a sperm
whale found dead in a busy shipping lanes off the northern coast
of Denmark contained so much " mercury and cadmium that it's
intestine had to be buried at special site for hazardous waste."

The source of theses toxic metals is not yet known.
Time magazine , in discussing the same incident ,
added that while some see this as a clear indication of serious pollution
of the seas, zoologists suggest natural causes.

Cetologist Carl Kinze, of the Copenhagen Zoological Museum,
points out that sperm whales feed mainly on octopuses,
some which have natural high levels of cadmium.