Whale shot and killed in Quezon to be preserved in museum

A whale that apparently died from gunshot wounds then washed ashore in Quezon province on Tuesday will not be buried but will instead be preserved in a local museum.

 

The municipal agriculture office in Calauag plans to take and preserve the whale's bones, GMA News stringer Peewee Bacuño reported Thursday.

 

The whale had died Wednesday after being stranded in Calauag, Bacuño earlier reported:

 

balyenang napadpad sa calauag quezon, hindi na ililibing sa halip ay ipre-preserve na lang. @gmanews @dzbb @YouScoop pic.twitter.com/UerGR65PNl

— hero peewee (@PeeweeHero) February 19, 2015

 

Bacuño earlier tweeted that the whale sustained several gunshot wounds:

 

Balyena na napadpad sa Calauag, Quezon, pumanaw na. Balyena, may mga tama ng bala ng baril. | via @PeeweeHero pic.twitter.com/CsbDbMr5lA

— DZBB Super Radyo (@dzbb) February 18, 2015

 

Another tweet by Bacuño Tuesday described the whale as being as big as a jeepney:

 

sugatan at nanghihinang balyena, na sin-laki ng isang jeepney napadpad sa baybayin ng calauag, quezon @gmanews @dzbb pic.twitter.com/4nrO2wnYBL

— hero peewee (@PeeweeHero) February 17, 2015

 

 

 — Joel Locsin/TJD, GMA News