The first dissections on the carcass of the whale found dead last Thursday in the waters of the port of Sorrento are underway in the port of Naples.
The tests will provide further clarification on the death, possibly caused by a virus.
This is what Raffaele di Palma reports to ANSA, which takes care of the communication of the Amp (Marine Protected Area) Punta Campanella between the Sorrento and Amalfi coasts.
The length of the mammal, a fin whale, is 19.70 meters, a measure that, pending a final confirmation, would make it the largest fin whale ever recorded in the entire Mediterranean.
From the first rumors, it emerges that the whale, a female, would not have had recent pregnancies.
On the quay where the carcass is being sectioned, about 25 technicians and researchers are at work, all in protective white overalls, led by the team of Sandro Mazzariol, professor at the University of Padua and head of the intervention unit of the 'Cetaceans strandings Emergency Response Team '(Cert).
The team deals with the management of large cetacean strandings in Italy and abroad.
Post mortem evaluations will be carried out in collaboration with scholars from the Natural History Museum of Milan and the Tethys Research Institute.
At a first inspection yesterday afternoon, the deceased mammal seemed compatible, for the alleged death date, with the specimen taken in the video that went viral on the web in the port of Sorrento in which a whale can be seen wriggling and violently banging its head against the dock.
But yesterday evening the technicians, viewing the videos in detail, would have come to the conclusion that they would be two different specimens.
THE VIDEO POSTED ON FACEBOOK BY CERT