On sighting the whale, residents rushed home and returned with axes, knives, and cutlasses, butchering the huge
sea mammal without confirming whether it was dead or not.
CALLS are being made for a dead
sea mammal which has washed up on a Gwynedd beach to be removed.
Professor Ailsa Hall, director of the
Sea Mammal Research Unit, said: "In these contaminated areas, we rarely observe newborn killer whales."
The double-tusked Arctic
sea mammal proved a big draw yesterday as it made a whistlestop visit to several islands.
Since Caspian seals are near the top of the food chain, some scientists suggest that this
sea mammal is an "indicator species." This means that if they aren't doing well, it's a good indicator that the rest of the food chain isn't doing well either.
THE seas around Ireland are so polluted plastic has been found inside every dead
sea mammal found on the coastline, a new study has found.
By: Egypt Today Cairo - 16 July 2017 : An endangered
sea mammal finds home at Marsa Alam, and a support group is helping it stay at peace.
Two-year-old springer spaniel Leia alerted her owner, Rich Wilcock, to the
sea mammal that had washed up on the Criccieth shoreline.
"This delay is unacceptable, and we cannot push back implementation of these measures any longer," said Diaz, who noted that the International Committee for the Recovery of the Vaquita (CIRVA) had been pushing for urgent protections for the endangered
sea mammal since September 2014 at the start of the shrimping season.
Members of the public can help by sending any photos to the Times of Oman so the same can be forwarded to the scientists for study of this unique
sea mammal. In January 2013, 16 False Killer Whales beached at Al Sawadee, of whom had 12 died, with two in-calf.