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Whales Die From Bizarre Cause: Fish Stuck in Blowhole
2015-12-02 15:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: A fish-versus-whale battle seems like no contest. But two whales learned otherwise when common soles became lodged either in or just below their blowholes, slowly suffocating them to death. Though observed before, the rare phenomenon has never been recorded in long-finned pilot whales, a new study says. The body of one animal washed up on the Dutch coast in late 2014, the other in early 2015. Making the deaths doubly strange, pilot whales normally dine on squid, not flatfish such as soles,...
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