Heartbreaking footage shows whale with severely broken back struggling to swim

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Heartbreaking footage shows whale with severely broken back struggling to swim
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A fin whale with a deformed spine was recently spotted struggling to swim off the coast of Spain. Its back was likely broken during a vessel strike, experts say.

A fin whale with a severely deformed spine was recently filmed struggling to swim off the Mediterranean coast of Spain. This extreme case of scoliosis was likely caused by a vessel strike and will probably cause the gentle giant to slowly starve, experts say.

The researchers attempted to put a tracking device on the injured animal's back, but it was too deformed for the satellite tag to successfully attach. After"a few hours of attention," the fin whale slowly headed away from the coast and out into deeper waters where it disappeared from view, Oceanographic Valencia representatives wrote.

It's is likely that the whale"was recently struck by a vessel," Currie said, an opinion shared by Erich Hoyt , a research fellow at Whale and Dolphin Conservation in the U.K., and Simone Panigada , vice-president of the Tethys Research Institute in Italy. But the experts also noted that it's hard to know exactly what happened.

Baleen whales — a group that includes fin whales, blue whales , humpback whales and others — feed by lunging through large shoals of tiny crustaceans known as krill. To do this, they rely on their enormous tails, or flukes, to rapidly propel themselves through the water. But according to the footage, the injured whale is unable to do this, which means it is probably starving.

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