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Rare ‘lost’ whale species spotted in Oosterschelde

The bottlenose whales were also spotted last week and the animals resurfaced yesterday. The pair were then spotted in the Oosterschelde.

Deep diving cetacean

The bottlenose whale, a deep diving cetacean in the beaked whale family, does not belong there, SOS Dolfijn reports. The aid organization has therefore been looking for the animals all day long.


Butskoppen can stay underwater for more than two hours and can then reach depths of more than 2 kilometers. There they hunt deep-sea squid and fish.

Difficult to survive

“That is why these animals do not belong in the shallow southern North Sea and it is difficult for them to survive here,” reports SOS Dolfijn. Normally the animals live in the deeper waters of the Atlantic Ocean.


It is probably a mother and her daughter. According to SOS Dolphin, the animals are probably lost. The knowledge center calls on everyone who sees the animals to report this immediately.


‘Alarming’

In recent weeks, bottlenose whales have also been observed in England and Scotland. According to SOS Dolphin is that ‘alarming’.

It is still unclear why the animals appear more often in shallow water recently, but it may have something to do with sonar systems used by the navy.


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