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Dead whale washes ashore in Rio de Janeiro

Thursday, November 16, 2017 - 01:09

A dead whale washes up on Brazil's Ipanema beach in Rio de Janeiro. No reporter narration.

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(ROUGH CUT - NO REPORTER NARRATION) A dead whale washed up on Brazil's Ipanema beach in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday (November 15), biologists said. Biologists reported the decomposing whale, which is estimated to be between 42 feet (13 meters) to 49 feet (15 meters) long and weighs about 30 tonnes, has been dead for about a week or more. Authorities are working with biologists from the University of Rio de Janeiro, to determine what happened to the whale and arrangements were made for a necropsy, the animal equivalent to an autopsy. Biologists took a sample from the whale's blubber. Authorities will remove the whale with the help of a bulldozer. It will then be taken to Rio's main port and then to the rubbish dump in Seropedica.

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Dead whale washes ashore in Rio de Janeiro

Thursday, November 16, 2017 - 01:09