Hapless Fish Suspected To Be Whale Butchered On Lekki Beach

On Wednesday, a large-sized Fish suspected to be a Pygmy sperm Whale was spotted ashore Lekki beach, precisely at Magbon-Alade area of Ibeju Lekki – Lagos – although it is not confirmed if it was dead as at the time it was sighted.
Quite predictably, residents of the area and funseekers descended on the mammal with their machetes, knives, jigsaws and every other type of sharp object as everyone wanted to have a piece of its flesh.
According to Wikipedia, the pygmy sperm whale (Kogia breviceps) is one of three species of toothed whale in the sperm whale family and they are not often sighted at sea; most of what is known about them comes from the examination of stranded specimens.


Can this behaviour be blamed on poverty because this appears to be a rare opportunity that could have been useful as a case study by Nigeria's marine biologists.