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Only one pygmy whale left alive after re-beaching

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Publish Date
Wed, 28 Nov 2018, 11:50AM
Irt was thought that six of the whales would be able to survive. (Photo / Facebook)
Irt was thought that six of the whales would be able to survive. (Photo / Facebook)

Only one pygmy whale left alive after re-beaching

Author
Newstalk ZB ,
Publish Date
Wed, 28 Nov 2018, 11:50AM

A dark turn in the saga of the pygmy killer whales stranded in the Far North.

Five of the six oceanic dolphins re-beached themselves, and have been put down by DoC.

They initially beached in a twelve-strong pod on Ninety Mile Beach on Sunday.

There's now just a single member of the rare species at sea off the shore of Great Exhibition Bay.

 

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