A mass stranding last week that led to the deaths of 77 pilot whales on the Orkney island of Sanday was the largest ever recorded of the species on British shores... all but one of those whales died.
According to Dr Andrew Brownlow, director of the Scottish Marine Animal Stranding Scheme (SMASS) at Glasgow University, this may not be a coincidence. The Orkney stranding last week has so many parallels with what happened a year ago, in terms of number of animals involved and their behaviour... mass strandings are increasing exponentially in the numbers of animals and events.
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