True's beaked whale Beached, first of its kind in New Zealand
By Laura Mills of the Greymouth Star
Wednesday Feb 8, 2012
A rare species of whale found washed up on a Haast beach is the first recorded in New Zealand.
A Haast resident found the True’s beaked whale carcass near the mouth of Waiatoto River in November.
It has only now been confirmed as the first of its kind in the country.
The skeleton, including a foetus, will now go to Te Papa in Wellington, where it will be available to scientists.
Department of Conservation West Coast marine specialist Don Neale spent the weekend extracting the bones after the 5m-long, 1.4 tonne carcass, which had been left to rot on the beach.
Not a lot is known about the species, but it has populations in the southern Indian Ocean and the north Atlantic.
“This one would be an extension of that southern Indian Ocean one. But is it a straggler, or do they quite often come here? We don’t know,” Mr Neale said.
“It’s incredible …
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