The body of a young female whale shark washed up on a beach in Sayalkudi in Ramanathapuram district, India on Thursday (June 4).
Footage shows the whale carcass being dragged from the shoreline by rangers.
Sayalkudi ranger, Sikkandar Bacha said: "a postmortem conducted on the carcass had revealed that the whale shark had internal bleeding, which might have been caused after it hit a rock in the sea."
