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Whale Played
Aussies release gruesome footage of Japanese whale hunt |
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08 Feb 2008 |
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| Posted at 2:30 PM on 08 Feb 2008 There's a new twist in the twisty tale of Japan's off-then-back-on-again whale hunt: the Australian government has released gut-wrenching footage of what it says is a mother and baby minke whale being harpooned and hauled aboard a Japanese ship. An unamused official at Japan's Institute of Cetacean Research denied that the large and small whales were a mother and calf, and warned that the Austr ... |
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| Topics: Australia, international politics, Japan, news, oceans, whaling, wildlife (all these topics) |
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