Regularly marine mammals run aground on the French coast. The causes are multiple: natural deaths, collisions, pollution… Back in this file on some cases of strandings accompanied by the words of experts.
A whale of more than 5 meters ran aground in the estuary of the Loire near Donges. She fell victim to a boat propeller. After being towed by the river, she was butchered by biologists at the Marine Mammal Research Centre.
Jacky KARPOUZOPOULOS, correspondent of the Réseau National d'Echouages, has been coming for 38 years to the rescue of marine mammals stranded on the beaches of the coast. Depending on the condition of the animals, he entrusts them to care centres or perform autopsies to determine the cause of death.
A dolphin stranded in the English Channel was flown to the zoological park of Port St Père for treatment. This park has special pools for marine mammals; Healers and veterinarians take turns to save Samy, the dolphin.
A disease strikes cetaceans in the Mediterranean Sea. The Spanish and French coasts see massive groundings of marine animals. Denise VIALE, a professor at the University of Corsica, talks about the various causes of these massacres and gives her conclusions, following the dissections she recently performed.
The Kwata Wild Mammal Care Centre in Larivot, Guyana, collected a small lament that had washed up on a beach. Before he was independent, he had to live in captivity for three years.