No answers in report on river whale
An expert group has released a report on the whale seen in the river in spring 2020, but they have no explanation why the animal strayed into a busy river that eventually proved fatal to it. For a sea creature adapted to saltwater the river wasn’t a congenial environment, but there’s no certain explanation why it didn’t survive.
If you wonder why we don’t know much about deep-sea creatures, imagine, this whale was right there, we don’t know why it came here, and we don’t know why it didn’t simply ride the river back down to the estuary. Do we even know whether it was male or female?
su 13:12 on 2021-01-28 Permalink
There was a blurb about this whale on the local tv news yesterday.
A female about 2 years old. They showed her corpse being craned out of the river. Basically a mangled mess. The necropsy indicated past ship strikes as is common in 80% of whales.
Cause of death or explanation as to how she ended up in Montreal are unknown. I guess her body got mangled by ships after her death.