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Dead baby Orca on sandymount strand

  • 19-05-2012 4:03pm
    #1
    cadger1978
    Registered Users Posts: 37 ✭


    Pretty sure it was an Orca, does anyone know if these are common in Ireland?Looked like it had been bitten on its underside but this could have been done by a dog or something after the fact.


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  • #2
    Mickeroo
    Administrators, Computer Games Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 32,425 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Mickeroo


    Did you get any pictures? You should report it here: http://www.iwdg.ie/iscope/strandings/report.asp?id=88 :)

    They are reasonably common in Irish waters, plenty of sightings have been reported and I know a fair few people who have seen them. Never been so lucky myself though! A pod of about 30 were sighted off belmullet a couple of years ago iirc.


  • #3
    cadger1978
    Registered Users Posts: 37 ✭cadger1978


    Unfortunately I didnt have my phone with me to take a photo but as it was close to the road and there was lots of joggers/families out walking at the time I'm sure someone must have gotten a pic.The gardai did turn up at one stage but they just had a quick look and drove off.I'll try to fill out the form as best I can but I didnt go counting teeth etc so I wouldnt be able to do it in detail.


  • #4
    OpenYourEyes
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    http://www.broadsheet.ie/2012/05/18/washed-up-on-sandymount-strand/

    I assume this is what you saw? Porpoise was my first thought, but I wouldn't know enough about marine mammals to say its not a young orca!


  • #5
    Mickeroo
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    Ah yea, that looks like a porpoise to me alright :D


  • #6
    lenovoguy
    Registered Users Posts: 113 ✭✭lenovoguy


    Mickeroo wrote: »
    Ah yea, that looks like a porpoise to me alright :D

    Was down there earlier but only saw the decapitated body , how would that happen ? Would someone have cut it off or would it have been a wild animal


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  • #7
    Andy!!
    Site Banned Posts: 1,678 ✭✭✭Andy!!


    WILLY NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
    lenovoguy wrote: »
    saw the decapitated body , how would that happen ?

    shoryuken.jpg


  • #8
    Mickeroo
    Administrators, Computer Games Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 32,425 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Mickeroo


    lenovoguy wrote: »
    Was down there earlier but only saw the decapitated body , how would that happen ? Would someone have cut it off or would it have been a wild animal

    Possible someone cut it off I suppose. They might want the skull maybe. If an animal had got at it I doubt it would have just rmoved the head.

    I remember a whale beaching when i was a teenager, it was badly decomposed, but folks went at it with hacksaws to get the teeth. a friend of mine was one of them and I still have the tooth he gave me.


  • #9
    Andy!!
    Site Banned Posts: 1,678 ✭✭✭Andy!!


    Eeeeew. Leave the poor animal alone I saw, no point desecrating its corpse for its skull. Weirdos.


  • #10
    Galvasean
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    Looks like a harbour porpoise to me. A baby killer whale would have a larger, more bulbous head.


  • #11
    Andy!!
    Site Banned Posts: 1,678 ✭✭✭Andy!!


    And also look like a baby killer whale.


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