Ques: Near the coast of which of the following state, Endangered Bryde’s Whale carcass was found?
a) Odisha
b) Gujarat
c) Kerala
d) Tamil Nadu
Answer: (a)
Related Facts:-
- On 9 December 2021; Endangered Bryde’s Whale carcass was found nearby the Puri Border and Ganjam Districts of Odisha.
- It was the 48-foot-long female Bryde’s whale which may have died due to stucking in the sea bed because of low water level.
- The dead whale was then buried near the shore after the post-mortem.
- Experts will try to find the exact cause of death only after getting a post-mortem report.
- According to Range Officer Narasingh Behera local fisher folk saw two whales – one male and the other female – near the coast on the evening of 8 December 2021.
- Range officer said that it might be the carcass is of that female one which got stuck in the sea bed due to low water level.
- Common Bryde’s whale is a more extensive form occurring worldwide in warm temperate and tropical waters.
- Sittang or Eden’s whale is a more diminutive form, restricted to the Indo-Pacific.
- A more diminutive & coastal form of Brydei is found off southern Africa.
- Anil Mohapatra, in charge of the Estuarine Biology Regional Centre (EBRC), Gopalpur, under the Zoological Survey of India said the forest department would be requested to preserve the skeleton in a museum for research purposes.
- We have collected tissue samples from the carcass of the whale for DNA analysis, Mohapatra said.