You generally do not want a giant carcass decomposing in a public area. Aside from the health risks involved with it, whales will often explode violently as the gasses build up inside them. This will blast giant chunks of rancid meat and guts a pretty significant distance. Again, not something you want on a public beach.
Well I have limited experience. I was living on a beach on the Baja peninsula when what I think was a year old whale washed up on shore. Best guess was the local fishermen had been using illegal nets to catch endangered snapping turtles and the whale was colatteral damage. Anyway, a day or so, the smell was positively horrendous. Not to mention the mother offshore crying out all night.
We lasted a day then we left. I imagine an adult animal would be that much worse aside from the danger of it exploding.
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