The news has been picked up by the British newspaper Sud Ouest in its edition today. Aurore Toulot and Pascal Ducaswere surprised by whale necroscopy. In the body of the marine mammal found the day before at the beach of Messanges, in the Landes, two workers from the Pelagis Observatory found 16 kilos of plastic waste.

In the animal's belly there was a potato sheath, Spanish sheath marks and many more things. “This female, 5.15 meters long, suffered from a parasitic disease. He devoured the plastic on the surface, as he was sick and could not dive to find the usual food,” they explain. This marine mammal feeds on cephalopods like Chipirones. Food remains have also been found in the animal's stomach and the observatory's workers believe that plastic helped the whale's death.

“It’s the first peak whale that has leftovers in the stomach since 2001,” says Aurore Toulot. A species that can be seen on the outskirts of Capbreton's Gouf. According to Toulot, the population is much smaller than the common dolphin and the common dolphin and they are used to being near the coast."