She says experts have confirmed the whale was a young female measuring just over 10 metres long and weighing more than 17 tonnes.A boat pilot spotted the carcass of the whale just northeast of Montreal Tuesday morning after the animal had drawn crowds in the city’s Old Port.
The young humpback whale spent just over a week in the area after swimming hundreds of kilometres up the St. Lawrence River in late May, but it hadn’t been sighted since the weekend. Muller says the veterinarians carrying out the necropsy should have preliminary findings to announce later today. Experts are looking for a way to conduct a necropsy on a whale that died after making its way up the St. Lawrence River to Montreal. A boat pilot spotted the carcass of the whale, which is presumed to be the same one that spend the last several days in the metropolitan area.Our Morning Update and Evening Update newsletters are written by Globe editors, giving you a concise summary of the day’s most important headlines.
Migh have something to do with all of the sewerage Quebec Dino’s into the St.Lawerence
ianabailey Pump enough raw sewage into the water and even the whales die. Who knew?
Watch them alter the post mortem results. Lol...old age, ya the whale died of old age...for sure, without a doubt old age.
Death by sewage.