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Sperm whale stranded on shoreline | |
(about 10 hours later) | |
A 40ft sperm whale which has been seen in the Highlands is likely to suffer a slow death after becoming beached in shallow water, experts have said. | |
The adult male spent much of Monday swimming in circles in the Inner Moray Firth. | |
It has now beached in just six feet of water on a shoreline at Aulturlie, near Inverness. | |
The Whale and Conservation Society said the whale will not survive when the high tide goes out. | |
There had been a sighting of the mammal from Chanonry Point, the Black Isle, on Tuesday morning. | |
Sperm whales are a deep diving species and the Moray Firth does not have the large squid they feed on. |
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