Dear Marmamers, a stranding of a humpback whale took place in Libya last week. the carcass was discovered in Sirt (the same area which had seen a stranded finwhale in 2009) accidentally last Wednesday by one of the locals and reported the incidence to the coastguards. a team from EGA (the Environmental General Authority) arrived in the area to collect samples and preform a necropsy. however, the animal was heavily decomposed and only samples of skin, blubber and vertebrae were collected. the only pictures that can be found where in a facebook page which published an article about the even...link : http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.369813469782186.85491.1803341487301... this is maybe the first record of a stranding Humpback in Libya -- ======= Ibrahem Benamer MSc. Marine and Fisheries Science University of Aberdeen Lecturer Assistant at the Faculty of Natural Resources and Environmental Science, Omar Mukhtar University (OMU), El-beida, Libya Tel: (+218) 92 859 6751 E mail: benamer.ly@gmail.com <mailto:benamer.ly@gmail.com> Skype: Ibrahem_benamer International Mailing address (Aramex(: Ibrahem Benamer TIP 398 Aramex House, Old Bath Road Colonbrook, Berkshire SL3 0NS UK Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail.