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sl8

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Fri Jul 12, 2024, 05:28 AM Jul 2024

Whale experts arrive in Orkney to examine deaths of stranded pod

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2q0w0vp17no

Whale experts arrive in Orkney to examine deaths of stranded pod

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Cetacean experts from around the UK are due to arrive in Orkney to begin examinations and post-mortems on a stranded pod of 77 pilot whales.

The pod washed ashore on Sanday beach on Wednesday in what experts believe to be the largest mass stranding in nearly 100 years.

Experts from the Scottish Marine Animal Stranding Scheme (SMASS) and UK Cetacean Stranding Investigation Programme (CSIP) will begin examinations of the pod, using tissue samples to establish the cause of the stranding.

Stranding expert Emma Neave-Webb said removing the animals was a "massive undertaking" with local farmers are on standby to help with the removal of the carcasses.

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Whale experts arrive in Orkney to examine deaths of stranded pod (Original Post) sl8 Jul 2024 OP
astounding event Layzeebeaver Jul 2024 #1

Layzeebeaver

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1. astounding event
Fri Jul 12, 2024, 05:52 AM
Jul 2024

not in a good way.

My wife and I intend on retiring to the Orkney Islands in the near future and have many links and friends there. Everyone is shocked at this event. Quite sad really.

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