Whale beaches itself at N.Y. oil depot dock

NEW YORK (AP) -- A young whale that swam aimlessly for two days in a small bay off an industrial section of Brooklyn beached itself at an oil depot dock Wednesday and died suddenly.
Animal activists said the minke whale, about a year old, was too young to survive on its own.
"It's very sad," said Kim Durham, a rescue specialist at the Long Island-based Riverhead Foundation for Research and Preservation, who had monitored the troubled animal's activities around the clock. "It was a very young whale that became confused and disoriented."
Earlier, experts had reported seeing nothing to indicate the mammal was sick.
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