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Big ship may have killed gray whale
Researchers studying a dead gray whale on a Whidbey Island beach say a large ship may have struck and killed the animal.
Susan Berta of the Orca Network told The Herald of Everett that a necropsy Wednesday found that a collision with a ship is the most likely reason the otherwise healthy whale died.
The 30-ton animal was found Sunday floating off Camano Island State Park and was taken to a Navy beach on Whidbey to be examined.
Berta says ship-whale collisions are common. She says even if a big ship spots a whale, it usually can't stop or change course in time.
Berta says a second gray whale found dead in Birch Bay in Whatcom County earlier this week also was healthy and died from some kind of trauma.
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