2023-07-19 16:57:27
Sad spectacle of nature
This is his last moment – and it will break your heart
Despite desperate rescue attempts, a beached humpback whale died in northeastern Brazil. During his last breaths it looked like he was going to cry.
Published19. Jul 2023, 6:57 p.m
A beached whale appeared to be crying as it took its last breaths. However, these are said to be oils that the whale secretes to protect its eyes.
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A humpback whale stranded in northeastern Brazil died on July 16.
During his last breaths he seemed to weep with grief.
However, scientists say these are oils that the whale secretes to protect its eyes.
On July 16, a humpback whale on the beach Washed up on Caipe in the state of Bahia in northeastern Brazil. Despite desperate rescue attempts, the marine mammal died a day later, as marine biologists reported to the “Daily Mail”. During its last breaths, the humpback whale secreted oil to protect its eyes. To humans it looked like he was crying. The sad moment was caught on video.
Already on July 8th and 15th the humpback whale stranded near his place of death. Both times he was saved, but the third time the marine biologists had been unsuccessful. “We tried three times to tow the animal,” says Gustavo Rodamilans, veterinarian and helper in the rescue operation, the local media. “We had the appropriate equipment and a well-trained team, but the whale managed to free itself from the rope and might not be towed.”
Broken fin and teary eyes
The marine biologists later determined that the fin had slipped or broken. Maybe that’s why the whale kept washing up on the beaches around Caipe. Since this injury cannot be treated, the marine mammal would not have been able to survive in the wild anyway.
So whales don’t cry in the same sense that humans do when they’re sad. The death of the stranded whales is still heartbreaking, as numerous eyewitnesses to the sad natural spectacle have already reported. “They had tears in their eyes. They looked like they were crying and they were making sad noises,” Liz Carlson, who witnessed a mass stranding of pilot whales in New Zealand in 2018, told the BBC.
The mass stranding in 2018 was the “worst night of her life”. “You can feel the animals’ fear when they look at you,” Liz continues. They would have very human-like eyes.
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