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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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