HOBART: The death of about 200 pilot whales at a Tasmanian beach has renewed questions about what causes such mass strandings and whether they can be prevented.With the help of Karen Stockin, a whale stranding expert at New Zealand's Massey University, here are the answers to five key questions:What causes mass strandings?Scientists are still trying to work that out. They do know that there are multiple types of stranding events, with several explanations that can overlap. The causes can be natural, based on bathymetry -- the shape of the ocean floor -- or they can be species-specific.Pilot whales and several smaller dolphin species are known to regularly mass strand, especially in the south
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