Whale Strandings and Doctor Doome

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Darling ketton is the person you call if you want to figure out what happened to your beached whale. Some people have started referring to her as doctor doome, because they only s see me when something's dead. When we look at the dead bodies, they tell us a great deal about the animal. So it's really a way to unlock the lives of the animal.

Every year, thousands of marine mammals end up trapped on beaches, but it’s often hard to figure out why. It’s even harder to figure out how much humans are to blame.

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