Latest Shocking Entertainent News: Scientists are 'Baffled' After Dead Baby Humpback Whale is Discovered in Brazilian Amazon Jungle
Scientists are searching for answers after a dead humpback whale washed up on shore and was discovered in a Brazilian Amazon jungle.
The oceanic mammal was found over the weekend amid the jungle’s trees and shrubberies, just 50 feet from Araruna Beach, Bicho D’água said on Instagram.
According to the Brazilian nonprofit conservation group, the young whale, who is believed to have been 1-year-old, measured approximately 26 feet long, which is much smaller than a humpback’s average size.
Adult male humpback whales are typically 38-42 feet long, while females tend to measure in at 40-45 feet — about the same length of an average school bus — the Hawaiian Island Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary reports.
“It is not an adult animal, nor as large as it seems in the pictures,” Bicho D’água wrote on Sunday in the caption of the grim photos.
WARNING: PHOTOS BELOW MAY BE DISTRESSING TO SOME READERS
View this post on InstagramA post shared by Bicho D'água (@bicho_dagua) on Feb 23, 2019 at 1:34pm PST
After the discovery, a team of scientists from Bicho D’água, as well as the region’s Municipal Secretariat of Health, Sanitation, and Environment (SEMMA), were studying samples of the dead whale to investigate the situation, Fox News said.
Though it is currently unclear how the sea creature made its way to the jungle, some marine biologists developed theories that the whale had been picked up by powerful oceanic tides and carried the 50 feet from shore.
Still, scientists were baffled as it is not a common time of the year to spot humpback whales in the waters.
View this post on InstagramA post shared by Bicho D'água (@bicho_dagua) on Feb 23, 2019 at 6:23pm PST
While it is likely to see the creatures swimming south on the Bahia coast of Brazil between August and November, it is not common to see them traveling as northwards as this young whale was, The Independent reported.
“We’re still not sure how it landed here, but we’re guessing that the creature was floating close to the shore and the tide, which has been pretty considerable over the past few days, picked it up and threw it inland, into the mangrove,” marine specialist and Bicho D’água’s project leader Renata Emin said, according to The Independent.
“Along with this astonishing feat, we are baffled as to what a humpback whale is doing on the north coast of Brazil during February because this is a very unusual occurrence,” Emin added, noting that the calf likely was separated from its mother while migrating south.
RELATED VIDEO: Humpback Whale Breaches on Top of Kayakers
Emin also shared with the British newspaper that it may be difficult to determine information based on the whale’s state of decomposition.
Despite that, biologists were searching for specific wounds to its body to see if it had suffered trauma, such as being hit by a boat.
Once a necropsy is completed to declare the cause of death, the body of the whale will be left in the jungle to naturally decompose, while the skeleton will be dismantled and preserved in a Belem natural history museum for further analysis, the outlet said.
by Joelle Goldstein
Other Important Shocking Information:
Recent Shocking Latest News World
Recent Shocking Latest Technology News
Recent Shocking Latest Sports News
Recent Shocking Latest Travel News
Recent Shocking Celebrity Gossip
Recent Shocking Weather Report
The Importance of news.
Well, News are very important in our daily life because news provide us with the information all around the world. News tell us about the everything happening around us from the weather, crimes, politics, sports, entertainment to the latest inventions, research in the science and technology too. News is more than just facts and information; it is information that affects us. News affects how we live our lives, how we perform our jobs, how we function as human. News sometime works as an evidence and proof of incidents. And most important it is the source of data and information that help to increase awareness, knowledge of the citizens in a country.
Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, aggregated from sources all over the world Get the latest news from the world: nation, business, entertainment, sports, global Get the latest World News: international news, features and analysis from different continent Latest breaking news, including politics, crime and celebrity. Find stories, updates and expert opinion. Find the latest breaking news and information on the top stories, weather, business, entertainment, politics, and more. For in-depth coverage, of tech issues and events. with investigative reporting and in-depth coverage of tech issues and events. The latest international news, featuring top stories from around the world and breaking news, as it happens now.
If you'd like to support. Please click HERE to go to Support Page. Thank you and have a wonderful day.
No comments