‘Mystery’ around dead porpoise in Elburg harbor | Inland

“It does not appear that the animal swam up the boat ramp alive,” researcher Lonneke IJsseldijk told Omroep Gelderland. So she is puzzled. After the remarkable find, the harbor porpoise was brought to Utrecht from Elburg. The little whale turned out to have just given birth to a calf. “She still gave milk. Very sad, but we know that the calf could never have made it without its mother.”

However, the newborn is nowhere to be seen. IJsseldijk: “That is actually one mystery after another.”

The porpoise also turned out to have broken several vertebrae, possibly due to a collision. So a broken back. That’s strange and we don’t see that very often.”

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