Despite being tangled in discarded rope, a right whale nurtures her newborn calf.
An endangered mother whale that has been tangled up in a rope for months, yet gave birth to a new calf.and dubbed Snow Cone by the agency, was first spotted in March 2021 in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
The footage with her calf was shot about 10 nautical miles off Cumberland Island, a barrier island on the state of Georgia's southeastern coast on Dec. 2. It was shot by a Florida Wildlife Commission aerial survey team. A right whale entangled in fishing gear for almost a year has been spotted off the coast of Cumberland Island in Georgia on Dec. 2.The Georgia Department of Natural Resources said the new calf was not entangled,"but has been observed swimming in, through and around the ropes. General opinion is they are short enough that the calf likely won't become entangled if everything remains as is.
Only the southern black whale is listed as a species of least concern on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List of Endangered Species. The other two are listed as critically endangered and endangered, respectively.
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