Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Dead whale washes up in Pacifica

A humpback whale that washed up on a Pacifica beach may have been attacked by an orca, according to a veterinarian with the Marine Mammal Center.


The 27-foot female baleen humpback calf had signs of mild trauma around the head and jaw consistent with an attack by a killer whale, Frances Gulland, the veterinarian who performed a necropsy on the animal Monday. But the decomposed state of the whale's carcass, which had been dead about four days when it was found on the beach Sunday, makes it impossible to say for sure what killed the 9-month-old humpback.


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