I had to laugh at the effort of all these people to bury a damn whale.
All they really had to do is float it out into the ocean and let nature rip.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/12/15/keiko.buried.ap/index.html (http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/12/15/keiko.buried.ap/index.html)
I'll bet a whole pile of small carnivores and scavengers and such died as a result of their actions!