107 Whales Found Dead on New Zealand Beach

in Animal News on February 23, 2011

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — All members of a pod of 107 pilot whales that stranded on a remote New Zealand beach have died, including 48 that were euthanized, the government’s conservation department said Feb. 21. The stranded whales were discovered by hikers Sunday near Cavalier Creek on Stewart Island, off the southern tip of New Zealand’s South Island.

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