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WHEN a school of whales was stranded on an Australian coast, much to the discomfiture of local health authorities, I put to various colleagues in the University of Melbourne the simple query: Why do stranded whales die? I received the following answers, and it was amusing to note that in most instances the explanation was coloured by the special study of the colleague interrogated.
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OSBORNE, W. Why Do Stranded Whales Die?. Nature 140, 1017 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/1401017b0
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