Northern beaked whales are rarely seen this far south of the Arctic.PARIS - A 7.6-metre whale, wounded but alive, was discovered stranded on a beach in northern France on Monday, authorities said, with experts hoping the rising tide will help the cetacean back on its way.
The female cetacean, which had suffered non-life-threatening injuries, probably ended up on the beach"because it was disorientated", said Jacky Karpouzopoulos, head of CMNF, an association for the protection of wild mammals in northern France."I've never seen anything like it in my 40 years on the job," he said.
The whale has a bleeding head wound, an AFP journalist saw, but local mayor Guy Allemand said the injury was superficial and not the reason why it had washed up on the shore.In February, a 9.5-metre female humpback whale was found dead on a northern French beach -- another"extraordinary" event, according to Karpouzopoulos.
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