The stranding of nine orca in Southland is only the third such mass stranding of the species recorded in New Zealand, a specialist researcher says. Orca Research Trust founder and principal scientist Ingrid Visser said nine of the creatures, including a calf, its mother and at least one adult male, died after stranding themselves
[Graphic images] Death of nine orca
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