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PETER FROST reports on the latest news from Tasmania, Australia, where this week more than 200 pilot whales came ashore in yet another mysterious mass stranding of these fascinating and often suicidal creatures

EARLIER this week around 200 pilot whales died and just 35 are fighting for their lives following a mass stranding on an Australian beach in Tasmania. 

The pilot whales were found yesterday stranded on an exposed beach along the coast of Australia’s biggest island — Tasmania.

Amazingly in 2020 an even larger pilot whale pod beached themselves on exactly the same spot. Few survived that mass beaching either.

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