Working with the Conservation, Information and Study on Cetaceans (CIRCE) group, the Ministry will share the information obtained from this tagging with the competent administrations, which will disseminate it to inform sailors in order to try to reduce the risk of interaction or attacks, avoiding or minimising navigation in these areas, the administration said in a note.Ī specimen, identified as one of the most engaging with boats, has already been tagged. Given the high number of incidents involving killer whales in the Strait of Gibraltar, the Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge (Miteco) has announced that it is promoting the satellite tagging of six killer whales to minimise interaction with vessels. You wouldn't do it because you're going to get hurt." He told CBS News: "The thing is, ramming a boat makes about as much sense to a killer whale as running face first into a brick wall would make to a person. Trites, professor and director of the Marine Mammal Research Centre at the University of British Columbia, isn't convinced by the idea killer whales are reacting to the past trauma experienced by a single member of their pod. The killer whales, he added, may be engaging with the boats on purpose to stop the vessels from engaging in similar behaviour that could harm them. Baffled by the number of incidents, Mr Lopez argued they may all originate from a traumatic episode experienced by one specific killer whale, known as White Gladis.Įxplaining the animal is believed to have remained injured after clashing with a boat, Alfredo Lopez Fernandez told Live Science: "That traumatised specimen is the one that has initiated the behaviour involving physical contact with the boats."
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