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Evening Standard
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Josh Salisbury

Swimmers touch sperm whale 'perilously' close to Australian beach in Perth

Footage shared online appears to show swimmers at a beach in western Australia approaching a sperm whale swimming “dangerously close” to the shore.

In a rare moment captured on camera, the large mammal neared shallow waters, attracting crowds of spectators, before going back out to sea at Leighton Beach, near Perth.

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