A dead porpoise and shark were found in Hong Kong waters over the weekend, just days after a dead dolphin and shark washed up on two separate Tuen Mun beaches.
It is believed that the two sharks are of the same, or related, shark species.
At 5:45pm on Saturday, a swimmer told lifeguards at Butterfly Beach about what he thought was a shark carcass floating near the shore.
Around six or seven lifeguards then went into the water, finding and retrieving a dead 36-centimetre-long spadenose shark.
Although a red flag was raised at the same beach on Thursday, when the carcass of a 60-centimetre-long shark was found on the shore, lifeguards did not hoist the signal or warn swimmers, Apple Daily reports.
(Perhaps they realised that there’s no reason to be alarmed by a dead animal found in its natural habitat… )
The next day, members of the Ocean Park Conservation Foundation Cetacean Stranding Response Team were informed of a stranded finless porpoise floating in Tai Pak Wan, just off Discovery Bay.
The porpoise was a 155-centimetre-long female, according to Apple Daily. She was reported to be “badly decomposed”.
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