FRANCE: For the second time in three weeks, a dead whale has washed up on a Pacifica beach, and watchers of deceased whales returned to nearly the same spot to ask the same questions.
The carcass of a 32-foot-long female humpback whale washed up late Monday on Sharp Park Beach, about a quarter-mile north of the rotting carcass of a 48-foot-long sperm whale that washed up on April 14.
As they did before, passersby with bikes, kids and dogs stood somberly behind yellow caution tape while biologists studied the beached hulk for clues to its cause of death. There seemed to be fewer onlookers, however — perhaps because a second dead whale is less of a novelty.
Sue Pemberton, a curatorial assistant with the California Academy of Sciences, said the whale was lying on her back, preventing scientists from inspecting her to see if she had been struck by a ship. Scientists had not determined a cause of death.
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