HIT BY A SHIP—A necropsy
of this 50-ton, 45-foot right whale, washed onto a beach HIT BY A SHIP—A necropsy of this 50-ton, 45-foot right whale, washed onto a beach in Wellfleet, Mass in 1999, showed a broken jaw, five fractured vertebrae, damage to the left flipper, and internal bleeding. The whale, known to researchers as Staccato, was a mature female that had given birth to many calves. Research has shown that saving just two mature females per year from untimely deaths could reverse the decline of the North Atlantic right whale population.
in Wellfleet, Mass in 1999, showed a broken jaw, five
fractured vertebrae, damage to the left flipper, and internal
bleeding. The whale, known to researchers as Staccato,
was a mature female that had given birth to many calves.
Research has shown that saving just two mature females
per year from untimely deaths could reverse the decline
of the North Atlantic right whale population. Photo by
Vincent DeWitt, Cape Cod Times. [back]
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