When a dead sperm whale washed up on a beach on the Canary Island of La Palma, no one suspected that it contained a true treasure with a market value of 500,000 euros. The so-called ambergris is “whale vomit”, which is more valuable than gold. But in many countries, trading it is illegal.
Antonio Fernández Rodríguez, director of the Institute of Animal Health and Food Security at the University of Las Palmas, was determined to find out why the whale had died. Suspecting a digestive problem, he examined the animal’s colon – and felt something hard there. “What I took out was a stone with a diameter of 50 to 60 cm and a weight of 9.5 kg,” he explains. “It was ambergris!”
Source: Krone
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