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Australian parks and wildlife service workers prepare a needle for injection next to a whale calf in Pittwater, 40 km (25 miles) north of Sydney, August 22, 2008. The orphaned whale calf which had been suckling from a yacht in a Sydney bay in a futile bid to find its mother was given a lethal dose of anaesthetic on Friday as its condition deteriorated, Australian wildlife officers said. [Photo: Xinhuanet/Reuters]

Australian parks and wildlife service workers prepare a needle for injection next to a whale calf in Pittwater, 40 km (25 miles) north of Sydney, August 22, 2008. The orphaned whale calf which had been suckling from a yacht in a Sydney bay in a futile bid to find its mother was given a lethal dose of anaesthetic on Friday as its condition deteriorated, Australian wildlife officers said. [Photo: Xinhuanet/Reuters]



(Xinhua News Agency August 22, 2008)

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