A specimen of Cuvier's beaked whale appeared stranded on the coast of Caleta de Caballo on Monday morning, as confirmed to La Voz by Vidal Martín, president and scientific director of the Society for the Study of Cetaceans in the Canary Archipelago (SECAC).
It was a private citizen who alerted the authorities to the presence of this animal on the north coast. After being informed, agents from the Environment Department of the Cabildo de Lanzarote traveled to the site, who were responsible for removing the cetacean.
On Monday afternoon, a necropsy was performed by SECAC on this specimen of Cuvier's beaked whale to determine the causes of its death, as Martín revealed to this media outlet.
Cuvier's beaked whale inhabits tropical and temperate seas around the planet and usually lives in small groups which, according to scientists, are led by a single male who is responsible for protecting the females so that other males do not mate with them.
It is a species that inhabits the same place and does not usually migrate. As for its size, they reach 4.6 meters in length and can weigh up to one ton.
Although its life expectancy is unknown, it is believed that its adulthood is around nine years. For their part, when giving birth, females give birth to a calf measuring two meters in length and weighing fifty kilograms.
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