News Forum - Decomposing whale carcass found in Phetchaburi, Thailand

[Thaiger]

A distressing discovery greeted the crew members of a fishing boat off the coast of Cha-am Beach in the Cha-am district of Phetchaburi. While navigating the waters, they happened upon the lifeless body of a Bryde’s whale, a sombre encounter that prompted immediate action. Responding to the call, a team comprising marine experts, and disaster … …

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[Karolyn]

Bryde's whale is one of the rorquals, closest to the sei whale, but also the blue whale. Bryde's whales are hunters of anchovies, and are found in warmer waters.

[Smiler]

You can go out and see these magnificent whales from Bangkok in the months of October and November and I recommend it to anyone who has an interest in nature, you can watch them feeding, the boats are very respectful and get close but not close enough to disturb their feeding or natural behavior. 

[HolyCowCm]

1 hour ago, Smiler said:

You can go out and see these magnificent whales from Bangkok in the months of October and November and I recommend it to anyone who has an interest in nature, you can watch them feeding, the boats are very respectful and get close but not close enough to disturb their feeding or natural behavior. 

Just took a look in the internet and a BKK Post article states Brydes whales can be seen all year round from a boat going out from Samut Sakhon. Now this is something on my list now. So glad I flipped onto this article and your post. Got me thinking as has been on my bucket list of must do's. Seen dolphins in front of the boat I was on before done near Koh Lanta years back, and that was a thrill as well.

[Karolyn]

I was a tour guide once, and I took people out to see two cetacean species, the tucuxi and boto. One is a true dolphin, or delphinid. The other is an iniid, a living fossil of Oligocene whales, although it is poularly called a dolphin, because beaked delphinids are a similar size, and probide a point of reference. In fact no true dolphin has such long jaws, which converge upon the faces of fish eating reptiles. 

The boto has lived in rivers for longer, and has evolved for slow swimming and close turns in flooded forests. Yet some of its features, are similar to marine cetaceans of the Oligocene. Whereas the sympatric tucuxi, can easily be taken for a  modern marine dolphin, ehich is what the tucuxi is. Ancestral tucuxi, like suction feeding Irawaddy dolphins of Asia, colonised freshwaters very recently.

I havent seen baleen whales, though i have visited pinniped and seabird colonies in the east Pacific. Its a great experience if you can handle the smell of guano. Honestly i didn't get out and dive, because the run off turns the sea into an unflushed toilet by the next tide out. If you do, then cute young sealions come to play with divers in season. There are also fur seals, high latitide penguins, boobies, pelicans, etc. 

[Smiler]

3 hours ago, HolyCowCm said:

Just took a look in the internet and a BKK Post article states Brydes whales can be seen all year round from a boat going out from Samut Sakhon. Now this is something on my list now. So glad I flipped onto this article and your post. Got me thinking as has been on my bucket list of must do's. Seen dolphins in front of the boat I was on before done near Koh Lanta years back, and that was a thrill as well.

Great I believe you can see them all year round but I think the best time is around October and November but just check in case I’m wrong on that point. Take some binoculars and a good camera.