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Sea Shepherd Loses 9-Hour Fight in the Antarctic, Whale Dies [IMAGE]

Reuters
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February 17, 2013

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reuters logoA whale tied to the side of Japanese Research vessel Yushin Maru No. 2 is dragged through the ocean in Mackenzie Bay, Antarctica, in this picture provided by Sea Shepherd Australia and taken February 15, 2013. Anti-whaling activists of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Group unsuccessfully tried to intervene in the transfer of the whale from a Japanese whaling vessel to another for more than nine hours, according to Sea Shepherd Conservation Group.

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Images (c) REUTERS/Glenn Lockitch/Sea Shepherd Australia

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