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NE Atlantic Ocean
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April 2016
Scientists
studying Scotland's resident population of Killer
Whales, Orcinus
orca, have identified an individual
animal which hit the headlines in the 1970s.
The orca
swam up the River
Foyle in Northern Ireland in November
1977. Efforts to persuade it to return to
the open sea failed until it decided to leave the river without help. The
Killer
Whale, named as Comet,
is now said be living in the waters off Scotland's west coast. Its identity
was discovered when old photographs were uploaded onto a facebook
page. Killer
Whale experts Andy
Foote and Hebridean
Whale and Dolphin Trust science officer Dr
Conor Ryan recognised the whale in the images
as Comet, last
recorded by the Trust off Dunvegan,
Isle of Skye, in September
2014.
Orcas
in the wild have an average life expectancy of 30 to 50 years. Their estimated
maximum life span is 60 to 70 years for males and 80 to more than 100 for
females.
Dr
Andy Foote said: “When I saw the photos on
facebook,
I noticed that the white eye patch of Dopey
Dick (media nickname) sloped backwards in a really distinctive fashion.
This is a trait we see in all the West
Coast Community whales, but it’s not that common in other Killer
Whale populations. The photographs were all
quite grainy, but it was still possible to see some of the distinctive
features unique to Comet.
I couldn't believe it – he was already a full grown male back in 1977.”
“Most
of what we know about this precariously small and isolated population of
Killer
Whales comes from photographs submitted to
us by members of the public. The population is too small to study in a
targeted way, so the public has a big role to play.”
BMLSS
Cetacea
15
January 2016
A
Kemp's
Ridley Turtle,
Lepidochelys
kempii,
(national
reference T2016/6) was found dead stranded at Poppit
Beach in Pembrokeshire, Wales. Marine
Environmental Monitoring recovered the body for post-mortem examination.
The turtle was found with a satellite tag glued to its back. Subsequent
investigation by MEM established that the turtle had previously stranded
on the French coastline and been taken in for rehabilitation in La
Rochelle, before being released after being tagged with both a satellite
tag and a PIT (passive integrated transponder) tag. The satellite tracking
had shown the turtle initially moving north, before the signal stopped
transmitting last October. The necropsy of the juvenile female turtle showed
that it had reasonable deposits of fat, but no gross evidence of disease
was noted. Subsequent bacteriological culture of tissues found the pathogenic
bacterium Aeromonas salmonicida
in the bladder and follow up tests are pending.
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Axius
stirynchus
Photograph
by Peter Mark Crowther
The
strange and colourful burrowing prawns Upogebia
deltaura, Pestarella
tyrrhena (formerly Callianassa
tyrrhena) and the red one Lipotte,
Axius stirynchus discovered
at La Pulente, St.
Ouen’s Bay, Jersey,
Channel Islands in the southern English Channel.
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Brownsea
Island
Photograph
by David Wilson
One
of a series of three photographs showing the cliff falls on Brownsea
Island over the winter of 2016.
During and after the wet winter there have been numerous cliff falls along
the Dorset coastline.
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Each year anywhere between
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