Increasing traffic in the waters of Sri Lanka threatens blue whales
Pravda photo |
Large numbers of animals have been
killed by collisions with boats and propellers. Scientists fear that
cetacean watching tourism is the cause...
The body was quickly becoming swollen and there were fish-louse sucking all the animal's skin. Even more disturbing was the condition of the tail which had been almost completely severed from the body.
"It was very clear it was caused by the propeller of a boat," said Mazdak Radjainia, structural biologist and underwater photographer, University of Auckland, New Zealand, who found the whale by chance. "It must have been a very cruel death, because the damage was enormous."..... MORE
Source: Pravda.ru
URL: http://english.pravda.ru/science/earth/24-07-2012/121715-whales_alert-0/
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