His body was lying on the sand when a walker discovered it. On Sunday, a wild boar was found dead on Granville beach in Hillion in the bay of Saint-Brieuc (Côtes-d’Armor). The place being regularly covered with green algae, an association immediately made the link between the death of the animal and the toxicity of green algae. Especially since it is in this same sector that 36 wild boars had already died in 2011, most probably because of the hydrogen sulphide released by rotting green algae.
“Everything suggests that the causes of the death of this particularly robust animal are to be found in the putrefaction of the green algae stranded massively for months,” the Halte aux tides vertes association argued on Sunday.
No bullet impact noted on the body
A hypothesis which has not yet been confirmed. According to the results of the autopsy revealed this Tuesday, the death of the wild boar was due to “an infectious cause”, indicates the Saint-Brieuc prosecutor’s office, specifying that no bullet impact had been noted on his body.
However, it is impossible to determine the exact cause even if the possibility of green algae is not excluded. “Blood tests will be carried out very soon to determine whether he had a level of hydrogen sulphide in his blood,” specifies the prosecution, which recalls that no abnormal level of hydrogen sulphide had been detected by the sensors. arranged in the bay “neither during the day of Sunday October 15 nor in the preceding days. »