Jan Haelters, marine biologist, explains to our colleagues at HLN: “It’s a very younger animal, we predict it’s not more than a 12 months previous. It is rather possible that the animal misplaced its mom and was unable to feed itself. It’s doable that the mammal was nonetheless alive when it washed up on the seaside. It in all probability swam offshore for a day earlier than being washed ashore.”
A whale seen with its again fully twisted attributable to a collision with a ship (VIDEO)
The whale can be transported to Ghent in the course of the day in order that an post-mortem might be carried out to find out the causes of its demise.