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A sad day for a porpoise

Sep 24, 2018
by Harriet Goodchild
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cetacean, Harbour porpoise, stranding
I was recently lucky enough to see a Harbour porpoise up close. Unfortunately, this was a long dead, heavily decomposed corpse… but a porpoise nonetheless. The UK Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme (CSIP) investigate all reported cases of stranded cetaceans. An individual can
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What The Otter!?

Sep 19, 2018
by Harriet Goodchild
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New Quay, Otter
On September 14th an otter was spotted in the sea, travelling along the edge of the pier in New Quay, Wales. As a rare sight, this was first thought of as a seal, or a strange- looking dolphin, but no it was definitely an otter. As it was swimming around quite happily in the sea it wa
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2018 Great British Beach Clean!

Sep 19, 2018
by Harriet Goodchild
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Over the past weekend, the Great British Beach Clean was held on beaches around the UK. The Marine Conservation Society (MCS) organises this annual four-day event, which includes both a survey and clean of a 100m stretch of beach. Volunteers are a vital in making the event a success,
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The Dolphin’s Sidekick

Sep 03, 2018
by Harriet Goodchild
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Spotting dolphins can be challenging, especially when the sea is rough and you’re not sure whether you saw a dolphin or in fact it was just a weird looking wave. But there is one method which many marine mammal observers use to help them spot dolphins, and that is to search the skies
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A melon-headed whale and a rough-toothed dolphin produced the first ever ‘whale-dolphins.’

Aug 26, 2018
by Harriet Goodchild
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A group of Marine Biologists at Cascadia Research Collective, off the coast of Kauai in Hawaii, claim that a new cetacean species received immediate attraction as these ‘whale-dolphins’ are a hybrid of a melon-headed whale and a rough-toothed dolphin.     A hybrid male inher
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