PHOTO GALLERY: Whale beaching a learning opportunity
CBC News
Posted: Jul 7, 2011 2:26 PM AT
Last Updated: Jul 7, 2011 3:11 PM AT
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A pygmy sperm whale that beached itself and died in Shelburne Harbour last week provided a great learning opportunity for staff and students at Charlottetown's Atlantic Veterinary College.
Efforts to save the whale failed, and it was sent to AVC for a necropsy. Pygmy sperm whales are rare around Nova Scotia; it was the first one marine mammal specialist Pierre-Ives Daoust had ever seen. The incident was not only a learning opportunity, but will add to the scientific literature on this elusive creature.
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