By Rafi Letzter, Staff
Writer | May 31, 2018 02:23pm ET
A blue
whale has turned up in the Red Sea, the long spit of water
separating Egypt, Sudan and Eritrea from the Arabian Peninsula.
It's the first time a blue whale
has ever been seen in the Red Sea, according to a statement from Egyptian
Environmental Minister Khaled Fahmy, as reported today (May 31) by the
news outlet Egypt
Independent. (The Egyptian government is currently monitoring
the marine mammal, the statement added.) Israeli newspapers also reported that
the whale had passed close to the Israeli Red Sea city of Eilat.
Blue whales turn up all over the
world, and aren't limited to any specific body of ocean water, according to
the World
Wildlife Foundation (WWF). However, the massive mammals
tend to migrate toward cooler polar waters in the summer, and avoid shallow
coastal areas all year round.
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