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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
World
Erum Salam

‘They’re stuck’: Cape Cod seeing more whale, turtle and dolphin strandings

Sea turtles swim in water
Rescued Kemp's ridley sea turtles at the New England Aquarium's sea turtle hospital in 2021. Photograph: Vanessa Kahn/AP

While Cape Cod, Massachusetts, is known as a popular vacation destination in the north-east US, it has built a reputation for an entirely different reason this year: animal strandings.

Dolphins, whales, sea lions and turtles are turning up in large numbers on the beaches of the famous peninsula in a phenomenon that has experts scrambling to execute more rescue operations than ever before. The cause? Changing tides.

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