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Pilot whales form heart shape before mass stranding in Australia

Video Credit: AFP English - Duration: 01:12s - Published
Pilot whales form heart shape before mass stranding in Australia

Pilot whales form heart shape before mass stranding in Australia

A pod of pilot whales appear to form a heart shape in the waters off Cheynes Beach in Western Australia before dying after stranding themselves on the sand, despite a desperate rescue operation.

All 97 of the long-finned pilot whales either died after stranding or had to be euthanised.


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