Madrileños crossing the Puente de Segovia on Friday morning might well have blinked their bleary eyes when faced with the extraordinary sight of a beached sperm whale grounded on the banks of the River Manzanares. Madrid’s City Hall have so far remained mysterious about the enormous cetacean, except to tantalisingly promise more information soon in a tweet. READ ALSO: Clean seas campaign launched on Spanish coast after sperm whale washes up full of plasticThe life-size, hyperreal statue of a sperm whale is the work of the Captain Boomer Collective, an artistic group that has been doing the stunt since 2013, when the first whale appeared on the banks of the Thames in London. Last year, the replica beast from the deep appeared on the banks of the Seine in Paris. “It’s an artistic way of making people aware of the environment,” Bert Van Peel, the founder of Captain Boomer told Le Figaro at the time.

Source: The Local September 14, 2018 09:22 UTC