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.369813469782186.85491.180334148730120&type=1

this is maybe the first record of a stranding Humpback  in Libya


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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

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