A whale carcass was found Thursday morning around 10 a.m. in the St. Lawrence River, near Contrecœur, in Montérégie. It would be a minke whale, “probably” one of the two cetaceans that got lost in Montreal a few weeks ago, according to Robert Michaud, president of the Group for Research and Education on Marine Mammals ( GREMM).
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Mr. Michaud explained to The Canadian Press that his group had not yet done a “carcass assessment” of the animal.
Depending on the whale’s degradation conditions, “we could do a necropsy,” said Mr. Michaud, specifying that this task would fall to veterinary medicine students from the University of Montreal.
Two minke whales were spotted earlier this month in the St. Lawrence River near Montreal.
Fears for their survival had been raised, since they were far from their usual habitat.