Balaenoptera acutorostrata (minke whale) - MAL 03-282

Abstract

Balaenoptera acutorostrata (minke whale) - MAL-03-282 - UMMZ 177420 - female - 8.50 m - Pelvic location - Michigan Museum of Zoology

24-foot female that washed ashore in stormy weather at Cape Neddick, York, York County, ME. Examined on 4 October. Its stomach was packed full of the bones of small fish. The nearly complete skeleton was salvaged on 19 October but had been damaged by the heavy surf on the rocky shoreline. The rostrum was missing but cranium undamaged with both auditory bullae in place, the right flipper was missing to the radius and ulna the ends of which were worn off, and the right mandible dropped out but was found brought up from the shore into a neighbor’s yard about a mile away.