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Pygmy Sperm whale beached in Loreto

Marla Daily - 12-25-2011 at 08:07 PM

We found a recently dead Pygmy Sperm Whale (Kogia breviceps) washed up on the beach out at El Bajo yesterday. Too bad everyone is on Xmas vacation and no one with marine mammal permits is around to salvage it. Little is known about this species in the Sea of Cortez.