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butthurt [soylentnews.org] writes:

from the bing-maps-users? dept.

Radio New Zealand [radionz.co.nz] and the New York Times [nytimes.com] (may be pay-walled) report that two pods of pilot whales, [wikipedia.org] totalling 640 individuals, grounded themselves on a New Zealand beach on Thursday and Saturday. Volunteers tagged and re-floated some members of the first group; none of those were found in the second group. Pilot whales are a type of dolphin. The reason for the groundings is unknown, but mass strandings at the same site, Farewell Spit, [wikipedia.org] have been observed before.

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