“Animals are suffering, and the reality is there, laments Jacky Karpouzopoulos, president of the Mammalogical Coordination of Northern France (CMNF).
Global warming is not just an empty word.
For the moment, these are marine mammals which are hungry, which seek to eat and which find themselves dead on our beaches, in perhaps not long, it risks being the man”.
She struggled for hours to get back to the open sea, but the northern hyperodon, a beaked whale, ended up losing all her strength and dying in a pool of blood mixed with the sand of a beach in northern France.
His skin is scratched with raw wounds, signs of shocks on the pitfalls and reefs.
A burial place far removed from its region of origin.
“It is a species that is only found in circumpolar areas, so the North Pole explains Thierry Jauniaux, specialist in marine mammals at the University of Liège.
We don't find it here because it needs to dive very deep to find its prey, so it's an animal that we don't meet in the Channel, that we don't meet in the North Sea”.
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