Beluga whale refusing food after straying into France's Seine river
Concerns are rising for a beluga whale which has been spotted in France's river Seine far, from the cold Arctic waters it is more suited, after it refused food and appears emaciated, a local official said on Saturday. "It didn't seem very interested," Eure department official Isabelle Dorliat-Pouzet told reporters. The whale has strayed far from its natural habitat, swimming 160 km up the Seine, past the port of Rouen and towards the French capital.