Experts believe over 50 whales may have died in the Western Isles trying to help a female giving birth.
A pod of 55 whales may have become stranded on a beach in the Western Isles after trying to help a female which was having difficult giving birth, scientists believe.
No definitive reason for the stranding has yet been given, but a high number of females in the pod were pregnant with several in the process of giving birth.Pilot whales are social and therefore more likely to stick together when one gets into difficulty He said: "We have collected a large amount of data and samples about the animals and we can hopefully use this to start putting together a picture of what has happened here.
However, he said: "They don't seem to have been feeding recently at all. These animals were quite dehydrated."What we're interested about now is working out why these animals were in that part of Scotland."Dr Brownlow said Thursday's stranding of a minke whale was not currently being directly linked to the mass stranding on Sunday.
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