6:06pm Tuesday 22nd September 2009
THE autopsy results on Gilbert have so far proved inconclusive.
Experts from the London Zoological Society found she had an empty stomach and a thin layer of blubber.
They also examined the rope mark over her beak but do not yet know if this was caused before or after death.
Expert Rob Deaville said it would be another week and a half before test results revealed if the Northern Bottlenose died of dehydration, drowned after getting caught in the rope, or had an illness.
He said he understood the whale’s remains would be removed on Wednesday by Bournemouth Council and incinerated.
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