hmore than a month ago, on May 21, I appeared in the Nogales beach, in the northwest of La Palma, a male of stranded sperm whale almost 13 meters long. To analyze his remains and the reason for his death, the forensic veterinary pathology unit of the University Institute of Animal Health of the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC).
The experts found something unexpected inside the cetacean: a treasure valued at more than half a million euros. The ULPGC professor who performed the necropsy on the animal, Antonio Fernndez, was the one who found the days of examining the sperm whale, a stone of nine kilos and 60 centimeters in length in the intestine.
Find a stone of gray amber of nine kilos in the intestine of a stranded sperm whale in the Canary Islands
This stone is a gray amber who has a great economic value in the perfumery market. This gray amber is produced “one in a hundred sperm whales and not all expel it through the rectum”so it is believed that only 1% of these animals make this stone.
He cetacean died due to this great stone, since I caused one injury to his colon, It looked very stretched. This ambergris it was formed by a bile secretion mixed with remains of hardened excrement and formed in his intestine.
The sperm whales abound in the world with more than 360,000 specimens, being one of the most numerous great whales, although they have to deal with orcas and pilot whales that, despite their size, take them as prey. These cetaceans are curious that they fertilize the oceans with their feces.
