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Photographer: Courtesy New Brunswick Museum
Caption: Marker detail: Pilot Whales / Dauphins globicéphales
Additional Description: Occasionally, marine mammals and certain species of shark make their way upriver following prey. In 1932, a pod of pilot whales beached near the Village of Salisbury, about 60 km upstream from the mouth of the Petitcodiac.
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À la poursuite de leurs proies, des mammifères marins et certaines espèces de requins remontent parfois la rivière. En 1932, un troupeau de dauphins globicéphales a échoué près du village de Salisbury, à environ 60 km en amont de l'embouchure de la Petitcodiac.
Submitted: June 7, 2020, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p524986
File Size: 1.530 Megabytes

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