According to Cascadia Research Collective, a nonprofit research and educational organization, the animal was also found in a poor nutritional condition which likely contributed to it being more vulnerable to the vessel strike.
the whale’s body was found in the shallows of Fox Island in southern Puget Sound on Saturday.by biologists that revealed the adult male had been killed by blunt-force trauma likely from a vessel strike., a nonprofit research and educational organization, the animal was also found in a poor nutritional condition which likely contributed to it being more vulnerable to the vessel strike.
The whale, reported to be around 40 feet long, had been sighted alive in shallow waters on March 27 but died sometime between then and when it was discovered, according to the organization.reports there have been many gray whale strandings over the past few years on the West Coast, including four so far this year.
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