This poor baby humpback whale mistook a buoy for his mother and didn’t leaving its side until it died of starvation:
A baby humpback whale died and washed up on a British beach after tragically mistaking a marker buoy for its mum.
The whale died alone in St Ives Bay, Cornwall, after confusing the ocean marker for its mother after being separated from her.
The whale had earlier became caught in the winch line for the power cable being laid as part of a new green power generating scheme called the Wave Hub.
The firm laying the cable had sent a boat out to try and free the animal and tow it out to sea, away from the work.
All alone, the sea-creature was trying to suckle from the buoy which made a noise similar to its mum's blow.
Dave Jarvis, BDMLR coordinator for Cornwall, said: 'It seemed to be attracted to the buoy as if it thought it was its mother.
'We went out every few hours in our boat to monitor it and noticed that the wave action on the buoy caused a sound a bit like a whale's blow when it exhales air and wondered if the baby thought that was another whale.
'It was nuzzling the buoy like it was trying to feed from it. It was very thin and lethargic.'
Baby humpbacks are highly dependent on their mothers and it seems that once separated this young whale died of starvation.
So sad.
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