Tay Whale
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title:
Tay Whale
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The Tay Whale, known locally as the Monster, was a humpback whale that swam into the Firth of Tay of eastern Scotland in 1883. It was harpooned in a hunt, but escaped, and was found floating dead off Stonehaven a week later. It was towed into Dundee by a showman, John Woods, and exhibited on a train tour of Scotland and England. The Regius Professor of Anatomy at Aberdeen University, John Struthers dissected the whale, much of the time in public with a military band playing in the background, o
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Whale caught in Scotland and exhibited in Britain
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_Whale
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2023-12-30T22:17:52Z
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