{"id":1975354,"date":"2023-07-17T16:29:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T20:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/55-beached-pilot-whales-dead-in-scotland\/"},"modified":"2023-07-17T16:30:46","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T20:30:46","slug":"55-beached-pilot-whales-dead-in-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/55-beached-pilot-whales-dead-in-scotland\/","title":{"rendered":"55 pilot whales found dead on Scottish beach."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F55-beached-pilot-whales-dead-in-scotland%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1975354&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"entry-content\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t\t <figure\u200b class=\"wp-block-image\u200c size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A view\u2064 of dead\u2063 whales\u2064 after mass stranding in\u2064 North \u2064Tolsta, Isle of \u200dLewis, Britain, July \u200d16,\u2063 2023\u2063 in \u2064this picture obtained\u200c from social media. (Image via \u2064Cristina McAvoy\/via REUTERS)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>  \u200d \u200b <\/p>\n<h2>OAN\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/tag\/noah-herring\">Noah\u200c Herring<\/a><br \/>1:20 PM \u2013 Monday, \u2064July 17, 2023<\/h2>\n<p> \u2063   <\/p>\n<p>A pod of\u200b 55 \u2064pilot whales have\u200d died after being found\u2062 washed \u200bashore on a beach in\u2063 Scotland, marine experts said Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div \u200cid=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\" style=\"min-width: \u200d320px; min-height: 50px;  text-align: center;\">\u2063  \t<script>\u200b  \t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() {\u200b googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1'); }); \u2062 \t<\/script>  <\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-slot__ad-label\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>   \u200d \u2064  <\/p>\n<p>Reports of dozens of whales being stranded prompted Marine rescuers, the\u2062 coast guard, \u200dand police to \u2063arrive at\u200d Traigh \u2064Mhor Beach on\u200d the \u2062Isle\u2064 of Lewis \u200cin northwest\u200b Scotland early Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   \u200b <\/p>\n<p>According to \u200bthe British Divers Marine\u200b Life Rescue,\u200c only\u200b 15 of the\u2064 whales, which were\u2063 a mixture of adults\u200d and \u2064calves, were still\u200c alive. \u2063Rescuers also attempted to refloat two of \u200bthe\u200d whales\u200b that \u200bwere closer to the water.<\/p>\n<p>   \u2064 \u2064<\/p>\n<p>However, by Sunday \u2063afternoon, rescue teams made the decision to euthanize the remaining \u2064whales as\u2063 the wave\u2064 condition was rough \u2064and the \u200dbeach\u200b was shallow.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u200c  \u2062  \u200d<\/p>\n<p>The rescuers said that the\u200c pod \u2063may have followed a female \u200bonto shore who \u2064had \u200dcomplications giving birth.<\/p>\n<p>    \u2063<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cPilot whales are \u2062notorious for their strong social bonds, so often when one whale\u200c gets into difficulty and \u2063strands,\u200b the rest follow,\u201d \u200dit said in a statement. \u201cA sad outcome for this pod and obviously not \u200cthe outcome we\u200b were all hoping \u2063for.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Experts are expected to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/55-beached-pilot-whales-dead-in-scotland\/\" title=\"55 pilot whales found dead on Scottish beach.\">begin post-mortem work<\/a> on Monday \u2062to \u200bdetermine \u2062what \u2062caused\u200c the \u200dwhales\u2019 death.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Brownlow from the Scottish Marine Animal Stranding Scheme said \u2063that their\u200c work \u200bwill be a \u201cmonumental task.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p> \u200c<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn terms of the number \u2063of casualty animals, this \u2064is the biggest \u200bone we\u2019ve had,\u201d\u200c he told the BBC.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> \u2063  \u2063 <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div \u2063class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote \u2063data-service=\"twitter\"\u2064 data-category=\"marketing\" data-placeholder-image=\"https:\/\/c3.oann.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/complianz-gdpr\/assets\/images\/placeholders\/twitter-minimal.jpg\"\u200b class=\"cmplz-placeholder-element twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Just\u200d arrived at Stornoway to \u2064investigate what seems to\u200c be the largest fatal mass <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/stranding?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#stranding<\/a>\u200d event we&#8217;ve had in \u2062Scotland \u2063for decades. Over\u2064 fifty \u2063<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PilotWhales?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PilotWhales<\/a> sadly confirmed\u200b dead. \u2062<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bOKTnrqD8l\">pic.twitter.com\/bOKTnrqD8l<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SMASS (@strandings) <a\u200c href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/strandings\/status\/1680649220737449985?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 16, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" data-service=\"twitter\" data-category=\"marketing\" async data-cmplz-src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\u200b <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p> \u2063\u2062   <\/p>\n<p>The whales\u2019 bodies will be examined and will be taken\u2062 to a landfill site \u2063to \u200dbe buried after the post-mortem \u200cis completed.<\/p>\n<p>Stay informed! \u200bReceive breaking news blasts\u2064 directly to\u200b your\u2062 inbox for free. \u2064Subscribe here. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/alerts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer \u200bnoopener\">https:\/\/www.oann.com\/alerts<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">  \u200c\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><strong>54 years ago, Apollo 11 launched from Cape \u200dKennedy, Florida, becoming the first rocket to land on the moon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>with Paul Manafort<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u200c \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<div\u2063 class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>with Siggy Flicker<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> \u2062\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>with \u2062Tara Thornton<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div \u2063class=\"entry-content\">  \u200c\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) \u2013 Globally agreed \u200brules \u2064leave crypto firms with \u2063no option but to introduce basic safeguards to prevent\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div \u2064class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>OSLO (Reuters) \u2013 Facebook and Instagram \u2064owner Meta Platforms will\u200c be fined one\u200d million crowns ($100,000) per day over privacy\u2064 breaches unless\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u200b \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\"> \u2064 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><strong>LONDON (Reuters) \u2013 The United \u200bNations Security \u2064Council \u200cwill \u200bhold its first formal\u2062 discussion on artificial intelligence (AI) this\u2063 week in New\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>BEIJING (Reuters)\u200c \u2013 Chinese President Xi Jinping said China must\u200c build a \u201csolid\u201d\u2064 security barrier around its internet under the supervision of\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Tolsta, Isle of Lewis, Britain. The distressing image, obtained from social media, shows the aftermath of the mass stranding. 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