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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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