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Australian rangers put down abandoned baby whale

Published August 21, 2008, 9:37 pm, Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News

An abandoned baby whale which touched hearts around the world by trying to suckle from a yacht it thought was its mother was put to death near Sydney Harbor on Friday to spare it further suffering.

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