A rarely-seen blue whale washed up in Namibia – after a likely hit-and-run ship strike
A rarely-seen blue whale washed up in Namibia â after a likely hit-and-run ship strike Apr 29, 2021, 12:24 PM facebook A blue whale was found floating off the coast of Walvis Bay by local tour operators on 26 April. Scientists from the Namibian Dolphin Project who investigated the scene are sure its cause of death was due to a hit-and-run ship strike. The blue whale is the world’s largest animal and is also listed as being . Today less than 1% of its original pre-whaling size is left. Sightings of blue whales are incredibly rare along the southern Afric...