A gray whale found floating off Alameda earlier this month likely died from blunt force trauma from a vessel strike, according to a necropsy report done by scientists at the California Academy of Sciences and the Marine Mammal Center.
The animal's death marks this year's first local cetacean mortality, the two organizations said Tuesday in a joint statement.During a necropsy Saturday, scientists identified the whale as a 40-foot adult female, with full stomach contents and injuries consistent with blunt force trauma.The official cause of death couldn't be fully confirmed due to the whale's decomposed state and body position.
The number of gray whale strandings tends to increase between March and May when the whales migrate north toward Alaska. The whale's death occurred shortly after an unusual mortality event ended.The UME was first declared in 2019, after ecosystem changes in the whale's Arctic feeding areas resulted in the die-off of hundreds of gray whales along the Pacific coast.
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