No Beaching Allowed

 

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Late last week, after more than a hundred whales threatening to beach themselves were spotted off the coast of an island in Scotland, dozens of locals worked together to save them -- and their efforts seem to have worked. Thanks to a team of conservationists, fishermen and others, one group of disoriented pilot whales off the coast of South Uist were driven back towards deeper waters, and further from a suicidal fate that biologists have yet to fully understand.

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