Brazil: A whale is dead in the middle of the Amazon

It is tens of kilometers from its natural habitat. Scientists – and less villagers – understand what this whale is doing there, so far from the sea, his homeland. It is 8 meters long and four meters wide. And he appeared in the middle of the Amazon. In the middle of the Brazilian jungle.

The whale appeared last Friday about 15 meters from the river's margin and since then, a specialized staff has been trying to determine how the largest mammal on Earth arrived without showing any injuries. The animal was found after a large number of vultures flew around it.

Ten biologists from the NGO Bicho D'Água arrived at the site – located on the island of Marajó, in the state of Bethlehem – and were surprised to find such an aquatic specimen at middle of the jungle.

Its specialists badume that the whale entered the mouth of the Amazon and that a cause of high tide was captured in the middle of the jungle when the water fell. Normally, whales only appear in the river basin during the months of July and August, when salt water enters the rivers.

It is estimated that the whale was about a year old and it is badumed that the animal lost its mother during a migration. They also think – the results are not yet known – that the mammal died as a result of the plastic injesta and that the water transported it to its final destination. He who surprised strangers and strangers in the nature reserve in the middle of the jungle.

Source: Infobae