Unusual whale and dolphin wash up on the Scilly Isles
Two highly unusual marine mammals, a Sowerby's beaked whale and a Risso's dolphin, have been washed up on the western shores of the Isle of St Agnes within days of one another.
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Spoonbills breed in Scotland for the first timeA pair of spoonbills have successfully bred for the first time in Scotland and only the second time in the UK. An adult pair have raised and fledged three chicks on Kirkcudbright Bay in Dumfries and Galloway.
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Huge populations discovered of two of Asia’s rarest primatesJust weeks after announcing the discovery of an unkown population of 50,000 western lowland gorillas, the Wildlife Conservation Society report has revealed large and previously unknown populations of two globally threatened primates in a protected area in Cambodia.
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Adelaide dolphins learn to ‘Tailwalk’A wild dolphin in Adelaide has been teaching other wild dolphins the art of ‘tailwalking', a behaviour which is extremely rare in the wild.
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New Forest Robin bird species discovered in GabonThe newly discovered olive-backed forest robin (Stiphrornis pyrrholaemus) was named by the scientists for its distinctive olive back and rump.
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Blue Marlin found on Welsh beach. Remarkably, just a few weeks after a Swordfish was found on a beach in South Wales, a Blue Marlin has washed up onto another Welsh beach.
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