A WHALE OF A TALE

I get about 400 e-mails a day, which is why catching up on the backlog when I have been ill is always a daunting task.

I have been working on the backlog all day, and they included this one from a bloke called Mohamed Awad from the Gulf:

"Hi Jon, those are the pictures I found in the beaches of Oman. can you please till me what you think, whether its a crypto or just some whale.

Thanks!!"


Well, Mohamed, it is certainly a whale, but I have no idea as to
pecies. Richard (F) reckons that it is a baleen whale of some description rather than a toothed whale, but couldn't go any further.

However, it would not surprise me at all whether there is some set of arcane diagnostic signs of which we laymen are unaware, so over to you whaledudes and whalechicks amongst the bloggo readership.

In the meantime Mohamed - thanks for writing mate. Please get in touch with anything else of interest that turns up...