Beluga in the Seine: vitamins will be administered to the cetacean – Le Figaro

The state of the cetacean, which since Friday has been in a lock located 70 km from Paris, is becoming more and more worrying. In May, an orca in the same situation ended up dying of starvation. Vitamins will be administered to the beluga which is in the Seine about 70 km from Paris so that it regains its appetite when it no longer feeds, the Eure prefecture announced on Saturday. “The vitamins are administered by a veterinarian with the usual means, arrowing (…). There is no reason to be impressed by this technique,” ​​declared Isabelle Dorliat-Pouzet, general secretary of the Eure prefecture, during a press briefing on Saturday near the Notre-Dame lock. Dame-de-la-Garenne.
Read alsoAfter the killer whale, a beluga observed in the SeineThe beluga, a four-meter cetacean whose presence in the Seine is exceptional, still continued not to eat on Saturday, when it is in a lock in a dimension of approximately 125 m by 25 m since Friday. Attempts to feed it, with dead herring and then live trout, apparently did not succeed. km, so that he can resume his journey” or keep it in the basin “so that he can regain his appetite”. Asked about the possibility of extracting it from the basin, Ms. Dorliat-Pouzet replied that this n was not the preferred hypothesis because the specialists are not certain “that the beluga is strong enough to withstand this manipulation”. Any decision will be made “in the interest of the animal” and “no decision has yet been made. taken” while analyzes are awaited, repeated the secretary general of the prefecture. “Small spots” Another element, “small spots” appeared which can be natural due to fresh water but which can also mean “ other difficulties”, according to the same source. The beluga whale, which was Saturday “tr ès calme” and going back and forth in the basin “quietly”, was spotted on August 2 in the Seine. In May, it was an orca who found himself in difficulty in the Seine between Rouen and Le Havre. The operations to try to save the cetacean had failed and the animal had finally died of starvation. According to Ms. Dorliat-Pouzet, the situation between the orca and the beluga is “very different”. The orca “was more weakened than the beluga” and “had disappeared from radar for some time”. These are “two different animals, the killer whale is less tolerant of fresh water than the beluga”, she explained. According to the Pelagis observatory, a specialist in marine mammals, this is the second beluga known in France after that a fisherman from the Loire estuary had brought one up in his nets in 1948. The beluga is a protected species of cetacean usually living in cold waters. SEE ALSO – Beluga in the Seine: Sea Shepherd in search of the animal