The Beluga is expected in a lock in the port of Oustreham, in Normandy, where a basin of seawater has been prepared.
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After a night of operations to bring it back to the sea, the beluga was extracted from the Seine around 4am this morning.
According to the Eure prefecture, relayed by France Info, a health check “confirms the thinness of the animal but does not make it possible to determine the cause”. “It bodes, according to veterinarians, for a poor vital prognosis,” adds the Eure prefecture in a press release.
France Info tells us that the cetacean’s state of health, considered rather bad, is nevertheless sufficient to transport it at 6:30 a.m. to Ouistreham (Calvados), “aboard a refrigerated truck”, according to the prefecture. He will be kept there for three days for observation and then be released on the high seas, “far enough from the coast”. To “let nature take back its rights”, advanced the sub-prefect. “As I speak to you, he is alive. (…) He is being treated, she said Wednesday morning, still according to France Info. “We were able to see that he is a male, that he is very underweight and that he has a few sores. »
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