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Through his spotting scope, a birder posted at the Tadoussac dunes <\/strong>suspects he saw an unusual visitor on Sunday. The whale\u2019s jagged black back suggests it might be a sperm whale. This solitary individual subsequently dived back into the waves and has not been seen again since. Could this be one of the five sperm whales observed last month<\/a> off the coast of Les Escoumins<\/strong>? Or might it be a newcomer? In any case, in the absence of a documentation photo or other evidence, it is difficult to definitively confirm the species in question, leaving this sighting somewhat shrouded in mystery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Through his spotting scope, a birder posted at the Tadoussac dunes suspects he saw an unusual visitor on Sunday. The whale\u2019s jagged black back suggests it might be a sperm whale. This solitary individual subsequently dived back into the waves and has not been seen again since. Could this be one of the five sperm […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":55847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-observation-of-the-week"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nStealthy sperm whale? - Baleines en direct<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Through his spotting scope, a birder posted at the Tadoussac dunes suspects he saw an unusual visitor on Sunday. 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