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Body Of Rare Pygmy Sperm Whale That Went Missing From Fairfield County Beach Found Body Of Rare Pygmy Sperm Whale That Went Missing From Fairfield County Beach Found
Body Of Rare Pygmy Sperm Whale That Went Missing From Fairfield County Beach Found One week after a request for the person who had taken the carcass of a rare pygmy sperm whale from a beach in FairfieldCounty to return it, the whale has been recovered. The Town of Stratford said the whale, the first spotted on Long Island Sound, that washed up on Russian Beach before disappearing last month has been found. The statement was issued by officials with the town, the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection and Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, which all worked together to retrieve the whale. "Pygmy sperm whales are rather elusive and this may mark&…

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Search Is On After Body Of Rare Pygmy Sperm Whale Taken From Beach In Stratford Search Is On After Body Of Rare Pygmy Sperm Whale Taken From Beach In Stratford
Search Is On After Body Of Rare Pygmy Sperm Whale Taken From Beach In Stratford Officials with the town of Stratford are looking for the person who took the body of a rare pygmy sperm whale that had washed ashore on Russian Beach. The whale was found in December and examined by Dr. Christian Senft-Batoh, with the town of Stratford, as well as officials with Mystic Aquarium and the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, who confirmed that it was indeed a rare pygmy sperm whale, Senft-Batoh, wrote in a letter to residents.   Officials left the whale to wash back into the water and out to sea, she wrote. Residents monitored the whale…

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by Kathy Reakes