the beach on the peninsula valdes coast is about to become the scene of a heavyweight clash. two 5,000-pound contenders are going head to head. the prize, the chance to breed with two dozen females. they jab at each other s necks with their canine teeth, followed up with a two and a half ton body slam. this fight is going the distance.
Experts have determined that the cause of the recent death of 30 whales in the Valdés Peninsula, in the Argentine province of Chubut, was a harmful algal bloom also referred to as “red tide.” The findings of the dead mammals took place between late September and early October.
Members of Argentina s INIDEP, the Fisheries Research and Development Institute, are working in Puerto Madryn to determine the cause of the sudden increase in the death of the Southern right whale, with dead corpses along the coast of the Valdes Peninsula, a mating and rest place for the migrating cetaceans.
the resident on the left gets in some good jabs. finally, bloodied and battered, the home invader is sent packing. next time maybe he ll think twice about moving into someone else s burrow. 30 miles to the north on peninsula valdes, another colony s numbers are not doing so well. the small settlement of playa rebelde has a population of 200