Marine Mammal Group Confirms Sighting of Wayward Minke Whale in Montreal Area
Posted: Mon May 09, 2022 8:28 pm
The head of a marine mammal research group is confirming that for the second time in two years a whale has been spotted in the Montreal area. Robert Michaud of the Réseau québécois d’urgences pour les mammifères marins says a young minke whale was first spotted Sunday in the St. Lawrence River near the city’s Parc Jean-Drapeau, some 450 kilometres upstream from its usual habitat. The sighting comes nearly two years after another whale, a humpback, spent several days in plain view of curious onlookers in Montreal’s Old Port. That whale was found dead in June 2020, and a necropsy suggested the 10-metre-long animal may have been hit by a boat. ...
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