Mysterious find in Denmark: how does a porpoise land in the middle of the forest?

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The Danish Henriette K.* made a strange discovery during a walk between trees and moss. At the end of April, at the Danish town of Brande, she did not encounter a hedgehog or squirrel, but a porpoise. Far from his homeland, the sea. How did the whale get there and what did it die of?

Scientists have now found an explanation – at least in part. “The harbor porpoise died of natural causes after a difficult birth,” Aalborg University said in a press release.

Whale researcher Aage Kristian Olsen found that the uterus became inflamed when the cub was born. This complication ended fatally for the animal. According to Olsen, she swam sick in the sea for about two days before succumbing to her injuries.

Biologist has possible explanation

This explains the cause of death – but how did the whale end up in the forest? It remains a mystery.

Apparently a similar animal washed up on the sandy beach of Binderup – 90 kilometers away from where it was found. On April 12, eyewitnesses reported a stranded dead harbor porpoise with similar characteristics.

After an observer reported the dead porpoise, a pest control company had to clean up the animal. But here the trail is lost. Biologist Kirstin Anderson Hansen told Danish broadcaster tvmv in April that beachgoers may have wanted to take the body and regret it along the way.

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