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The man was hitting the beached animal with a large stick.

Tasmania's Department of Natural Resources and Environment said 157 false killer whales had beached near Arthur River, in the island's north west.

Their color-coded tale of a traumatized war veteran, his concerned daughter and a beached whale is evocative and unsentimental.

An environmentalist non-profit is calling for an investigation of former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who is accused of breaking endangered species laws by chainsawing the head off of a beached whale.

But not before Maxine sings a song to a beached whale, calling it back into the sea.