An owner of a museum that showcases preserved skeletons of various animals said it had already retrieved 72 dead marine creatures washed on the coastlines of the Davao Gulf for the past 12 years. D’Bone Collector Museum Director Darrell Blatchley said in a press conference on Thursday, April 21, 2022, that 58 of them died immediately while being stranded on the shores. Four of them were pregnant. The latest, according to Blatchley, was a rare Hotaula beaked whale that was washed ashore on April 10 in Banaybanay, Davao Oriental. He said this is the first reported marine death along the shores of Davao Region for this year.

Llemit, R. L. G. (2022, April 25). 72 marine creatures washed ashore in Davao coasts in last 12 years. SunStar Davao, p. 4.