Senegalese Fishermen Save Dozens of Stranded Whales

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Senegalese Fishermen Save Dozens of Stranded Whales

Local fishermen struggled through the night to return dozens of stranded pilot whales back to the sea on Wednesday after the animals mysteriously beached themselves along a Senegal coastal village around 9:00 in the evening.

One fisherman told a reporter, "We worked all night to try to drag them back into the ocean. We got about 80 back into the water with ropes, our (boats) and our hands."

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