Kolkata: Pope’s carcass, with a fishnet around his tail, which washing to the beach near Bakkhali on Monday surprised the local population.
The large size of the carcass – 59-ft with the circumference of 22ft – has left the forest guessing if it can become a fin pope, the second largest cetacea on earth after the blue whale.
However, experts say because the fin pope is found in medium waters, this is the largest blue-mammal pope on earth.
A further DNA test can provide more instructions for it.
The carcass was seen by the locals around 8:30 a.m.
Then, we reached the place – Lousalangj Char under Haripur Gram Panchayat in the Namkhana Ps area, said Ahok Naskar, Ranger, Bakkhali.
SOUTH DIVISION 24 Division Forest Officer, Milan Mandal, said: “The size and shape of the slim body resemble with the fin pope, which is the second largest cetacea in the world after the blue whale.
Post mortem has been done and animals will be buried on the beach itself.” However, Lost of Sutaria, an ecologist who studies Cetacea Marine in India, however, says that if this is a straight length of 59 feet, then our best guess is blue whales, maybe teen women.
“International expert in Pope Baleen, Robert Brownell, has also confirmed it.
Tail stock and fluke have ‘Jaal’ Bhekti around him suggested death due to resistance attachments.
We can ensure the species if the network sample has been collected and stored in ethanol,” said Sutaria , also members of the Marine Mammalian research and Indian conservation network.
Baleen Pope has a whale plate in the mouth to stiffen the plankton of the water.
Bay Bay, according to Sutaria, is known to have three species of Pope Baleen – blue whales, Pope Bryde and Pope Omura.
Head of Wildlife Wildlife Debal Roy said: “This can be the whale fin and presence here can be the result of erratic migration.
We have collected samples of their skin and talked to ZSI.” “Pope fins avoided polar and tropical waters and the body of water semi-water.
Closed, “Sutaria added.
A forester said based on the condition of the carcass, the Pope seemed to have died a few days ago.
He said the ship’s attack could also be the reason for his death.