A dead whale has been found beached in Comino.<\/p>\n
According to Nature Trust\u2019s Wildlife Rescue Team, the whale was subject to assessments over the past four hours, as the NGO\u2019s vet was onsite.<\/p>\n
The Environment and Resources Authority (ERA) was also onsite, as the best method of removal is being worked out.<\/p>\n
The public has been urged not to touch the carcass.<\/p>\n
The whale\u2019s cause of death has not yet been determined, as the NGO warned that the animal\u2019s cause of death could be transmitted to humans given that it is a mammal.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are working together in order to remove the hazard as soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n
Presence of whales around Malta is common<\/p>\n
Research<\/a> published in 2021 by ERA shows that different species of whales and dolphins are very much present around the Maltese islands.<\/p>\n Among the whale species found was the Sperm Whale,\u00a0Fin Whale, Sperm Whale, Cuvier\u2019s Beaked Whale, and Long-Finned Pilot Whale.<\/p>\n READ ALSO |\u00a0Whales in the Mediterranean: more common than you think<\/a><\/p>\n Most of these species aren\u2019t frequently sighted by the public, likely due to their migratory nature and presence at deeper depths.\u00a0However, this doesn\u2019t mean that sightings don\u2019t occur. Passers-by at Gozo\u2019s Ta\u2019 Sanap Cliffs caught a glimpse of a Fin Whale in 2021.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A dead whale has been found beached in Comino. According to Nature Trust\u2019s Wildlife Rescue Team, the whale…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-466548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}