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Rare whales die on SA beach
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July 28, 2005 - Fires Across AlaskaPosted by Ninja T. Penguin Posted by Ninja T. Penguin
(IOL News) from South Africa.
Knysna - Two rare True Beaked whales were found dead on the beach at Buffels Bay near Knysna, the National Sea Rescue Institute said on Monday.
Knysna station commander Rein Hofmeyr said the NSRI was told about 16:00 on Sunday that a whale had beached itself.
A 4.6m-long adult was found dead in a rock pool.
"A short while later, a second female True Beaked whale, a 3.4m sub-adult, was found on the beach, also dead," he said.
Hofmeyr said that bystanders who found the whale said it had been alive and they had tried to get it back into the sea, but it washed up on the beach again and died.
Debbie Cockroft of the Centre for Dolphin Studies - which assisted in moving the adult whale from the rock pool to the beach - told the...
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July 28, 2005 - Fires Across AlaskaPosted by Ninja T. Penguin Posted by Ninja T. Penguin
(IOL News) from South Africa.
Knysna - Two rare True Beaked whales were found dead on the beach at Buffels Bay near Knysna, the National Sea Rescue Institute said on Monday.
Knysna station commander Rein Hofmeyr said the NSRI was told about 16:00 on Sunday that a whale had beached itself.
A 4.6m-long adult was found dead in a rock pool.
"A short while later, a second female True Beaked whale, a 3.4m sub-adult, was found on the beach, also dead," he said.
Hofmeyr said that bystanders who found the whale said it had been alive and they had tried to get it back into the sea, but it washed up on the beach again and died.
Debbie Cockroft of the Centre for Dolphin Studies - which assisted in moving the adult whale from the rock pool to the beach - told the...
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