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Scientists search for answers as baby whales wash up dead in Argentina

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Scientists are investigating why baby southern right whales are washing up dead along the Patagonian coast of Argentina, particularly around Peninsula Valdes in Chubut province. This area serves as a crucial breeding ground for these endangered whales, which have been making a recovery since being nearly hunted to extinction earlier in history.

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In Argentina, specifically around Peninsula Valdes in Chubut province, scientists are investigating a mysterious surge in baby whale deaths. Scores of calf carcasses have washed ashore, with Marcela Uhart, a veterinarian from the One Health Institute at University of California, Davis, leading the investigation as head of the Southern Right Whale Health Monitoring Program. This area is a significant breeding ground for southern right whales, where they gather to give birth and nurse their young. Based on 23 years of monitoring data, Uhart confirms this event as unusual, suggesting that infections from marine bacteria might be causing fatal injuries in the calves.

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Investigators in Argentina are trying to solve the mystery of baby whales washing up dead in unusually high numbers along the country’s Patagonian coast. asserted

Investigators → try → coast

Scores of the calf carcasses have been washing ashore around Peninsula Valdes, a major breeding ground for southern right whales in Argentina’s Chubut province. asserted

Scores → wash → province

Hunted to the brink of extinction in the 19th and 20th centuries, the whales now gather in the peninsula’s sheltered waters to give birth and nurse their young. asserted

whales → hunt → young

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