Dear Marmamers,
Apparently attachments cannot pass through the Marmam list and we are
receiving many requests for the photo that we tried to send to all of you.
Those interested to have and distribute the photo in social media or
elsewhere can download it from Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara's Marine
Conservation Blog and Website at the following link:
http://www.disciara.net/?p=1010
Apologies for any inconvenience
All best,
Alexandros
On 4/6/2014 5:13 PM, Alexandros Frantzis wrote:
Dear all,
Following the many tens of e-mails that we received, we would like to
express our gratitude for your interest and support and answer some of
your questions with an update, now that more data are available.
The atypical mass stranding spanned 2 days (1st and 2nd April ) and
involved five single stranding events involving 3, 2, 1, 1 and 1
individuals. According to the analysis conducted so far, a minimum of
five (but analysis is on going) and a maximum of seven individuals
were recorded (two single standing events concerned the same
individual and the two individuals of another event cannot be identified).
The distance between the western and eastern stranding locations for
the strandings of the 1st April was 16.5 km in straight line. The
single stranding of the 2nd of April occurred 4.1 km further west of
the western stranding location of the 1st of April.
/(While writing this message and according to preliminary information
from the local port-police authorities, three more reports of three
different stranding events became available. They occurred the 3rd or
4th, the 5th and 6th April and all involved single animals. The two
first concerned live animals re-floated and the last one (today 6th
April) a dead animal still being on the beach. All of them occurred at
a distance of less than 1 km between each other and took place in a
location about 48 km west of the stranding event of the 2nd of April.
These news are very important and indicate that the impact of the
exercise may concern a very large sea area./)*
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Two of the stranded whales died (all others were re-floated and not
seen so far) and necropsies were performed on both of them (the whale
that was disposed according to our first message was recovered). The
necropsies were conducted under the guidance of Dr. Anastasia
Komnenou, Veterinary School of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
Please address any questions regarding the necropsies and the
histopathological findings directly to her.
At least one of the photos of the stranding event is amazing and can
greatly contribute to the conservation of beaked whales. Therefore, we
thought that sharing it with the entire cetological community can help
our common goal to protect the beaked whales from navy sonar and
anthropogenic sound in general. Please feel free to upload and
distribute the photo as attached to raise public awareness or for
educational purposes (you have no right of use for commercial purposes).
All best,
Alexandros
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Dr. Alexandros Frantzis
Scientific director
Pelagos Cetacean Research Institute
Terpsichoris 21
16671 Vouliagmeni,
GREECE
Tel.: +30-210-8960108
e-mail:[email protected]
website:http://www.pelagosinstitute.gr
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