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数日前にロンドンのテムズ川に迷い込んだ鯨が、
かわいそぅなことに死んでしまいました。
今朝朝刊を見たら小さく記事載っていたので、
日本の出来事じゃなぃので大きく取り上げられないので、
UKのBBCのサイトで記事見ました。

関連記事、レスキューの様子、迷い込んで泳いでいた時のムービーも見られます。
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/4636278.stm

An expert is carrying out a post-mortem examination on a whale which died after becoming stranded in the River Thames.

*a post-mortem exam　検死解剖（mortal　死の）
*strand 座礁する

bottle-nosed whale died on a barge which was trying to take it back to deep waters. The mammal suffered breathing problems and muscle spasms when it convulsed and died on Saturday evening.

*bottle-nosed whale トックリクジラ
*barge 艀、荷船
*mammal　哺乳動物
*spasm　けいれん
*convulse けいれんする

Paul Jepson, from the Zoological Society of London onlookers lined the river to watch as the mammal was put on a special pontoon at Battersea Bridge and then onto a barge on Saturday.

*the Zoological Society of London　ロンドン動物協会
*onlookers　見物人、やじ馬
*pontoon　箱舟

Plan scaled down

ocean-going vessel " and take it to deep water off the south coast.

*scale down 縮小する
*ocean-going vessel　遠洋航行船

Earlier, naturalist and television presenter Terry Nutkins said the rescue operation was the wrong thing to do and that the animal needed space.

*naturalist　博物学者

He told BBC Radio Five Live: "It wouldn't know what was happening, it was surrounded by boats... it would have been absolutely terrified as well as being stressed.It was kept... like a goldfish in a bowl. So, it doesn't surprise me that it's died."

However, he later concluded he had "no doubts" the rescue operation had been the best way to try to save the whale.

*conclude　･･･という結論になる

Tony Woodley, a director of the British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) group said that despite the sad outcome , the decision to move the whale - costing the group about £100,000 - was correct and they had given it their "best shot".

*outcome　結果

He said: "The organization was under extreme pressure from other experts and the media and it is our opinion that we did the right thing for the whale. We believe that if the whale would have been left how it was then it would have just slowly died and we don't think that was the acceptable option to take. We always knew that it was going to be risky. We did everything that we could and I am afraid that this time it was not a success."

He denied suggestions that the noise made by boats as the whale lay in the Thames caused its eventual death.

Pod spotted ,a spokeswoman for the Zoological Society of London said Mr Jepson was among the best qualified to carry out the post-mortem examination given his previous research work on stranded marine mammals.

It will be carried out at Gravesend in Kent where the whale was unloaded and take about six hours.

*Gravesend in Kent　ケント州グレーヴズエンド
*unloaded　荷を降ろす
（ここでは、鯨をグレーヴズエンドで降ろし、it will be carried out。
it＝a post-mortem exam）

She added the results of the tests would be known on Wednesday or Thursday.

The whale, which could weigh about four tonnes , was first spotted at on Friday morning.

*weigh about four tonnes　４トンの重さがある

There were reports of a pod of whales in the Thames estuary earlier in the week, and it was possible the whale had become separated from this group.

*a pod of whales　鯨の群れ
*esturay　河口

It was the first sighting of the endangered species in the Thames since records began in 1913.

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