CNN CNN Newsroom December 4, 2013 15:46:00
>> these are pilot whales and most common species of whales that mass transs in florida. they stay very close together. even if we have one or two pod members that are sick or ill that beach themselves, the others typically will remain close by or beach themselves as well just to be with the other group. so these animals are very far from their natural has been tant. they're deep water species. and the closest deep water is literally miles and miles away. may be 25 to 30 miles. we don't know why they're there. and our teams are doing their best to assess the live animals and see what our optio...