 An injured whale washed up on a Bronx beach Sunday, drawing crowds of bystanders and specialists bent on saving the distressed mammal.
The minke whale was discovered stranded in the shallows at Orchard Beach around noon, authorities said. “He was beached,” Bronx construction worker Bob Doran said, of the approximiately 15 foot-long creature. “Me and some people went in and he turned over and he was all scratched up. He had abrasions underneath his belly.” The 48-year-old said the chances of having a whale beached in Orchard Beach were “one in a million,” “I was stunned when I saw him,” Doran added. “How did he come in here? It’s a shallow beach.”
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