A humpback whale with a severe spinal injury used nothing but its pectoral fins to swim 4,800 kilometres between British Columbia and Hawaii, in what a researcher says is a heartbreaking example of a ship strike.
Janie Wray, CEO and lead researcher for B.C. Whales, says it is likely to be the last journey for the whale known as Moon.
“And right away, we just recognized like, ‘Oh, my God. What has happened to this poor whale?’ You could see from her dorsal fin to her tail was curved into an S shape,” said Wray. Wray says researchers believed Moon had been hit by a large ship, and the whale’s plight left her almost speechless.
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