The long-finned pilot whales became stranded on Sanday, Orkney, on Thursday.
Experts are striving to save 12 pilot whales after 77 stranded on Orkney – almost a year after another mass stranding in Scotland.
Of the 77 whales which were on the beach, only 12 have survived with medics mobilised from around the islands and further afield in Scotland in a bid to save them. Molly Brown, who works for BDMLR, said although the cause of the stranding was unknown, the whales are sociable and may have followed one of the group who became stranded.
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