SEATTLE (AP) — Marine mammal biologists and veterinarians are treating and monitoring a gray whale that appears to have developed an infection after the whale was darted with a satellite tracking tag.
The whale is part of a group of about 250 gray whales that feed off the coasts of Oregon, Washington and British Columbia during the summer.
The whale is now off the coast of Vancouver Island and appears healthy, but experts became concerned after the whale was photographed in March with lesion visible around the tagging site and two lesions on the opposite side of the animal.
The whale was later darted with antibiotics to stave off systemic infection.