Cetacean rescue gallery

Neonate porpoise found washed up dead on the beach at Hunmanby Gap
Same porpoise calf : a small female neonate with the lingual papillae present around the tongue.
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No other signs of injury and in good condition (if that can be said of a dead porpoise)- it looks likely that it may have got separated from mum in the heavy seas and got washed up.

The weather was cold and cloudy with a stiff north wind blowing making the sea rough and she would have had no chance of getting back to her mother. 

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