A massive 40-ton fin whale swimming off the coast of Valencia in Spain has been filmed with a severe bend in its 17-meter-long body (56 feet) in what appears to be a pronounced case of scoliosis.
A massive 40-ton fin whale swimming off the coast of Valencia in Spain has been filmed with a severe bend in its 17-meter-long body At first, when the skipper of a local boat caught sight of the poor creature from afar, it seemed to be struggling to swim, as though caught in the web of a fishing net.
Once biologists and veterinarians arrived on the scene it became clear the whale's condition wasn't quite what they expected, with drone footage revealing a sharp deviation in the animal's spine about halfway down its body.according to a Facebook postBiologists were hoping to attach a tracker to the whale, but the malformation in its spine made that impossible.
Whale anatomy, on the other hand, provides these marine giants with vertebral columns that are less prone to bending out of shape under the strain of posture and usage than our upright spines. In the case of the fin whale from Valencia, it's unclear how its spine got to be so deformed. With global shipping traffic on the rise the chance of an encounter with a powerful ocean vessel could explain its condition.
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