Rescuers failed in their bid to rescue a young whale that became stranded on a Fife beach after becoming separated from its mother.
They’d hoped to return it to the water, but had to euthanise it instead. The female minke was spotted trapped on the sands at Pettycur Bay at high tide yesterday morning.
Coastguard officers and a team from British Divers Marine Life Rescue rushed to the beach between Kinghorn and Burntisland with the hope of refloating the mammal .
However, separated from its mother the juvenile female’s chances of survival were deemed low.Medics from the rescue group tended to the animal but with high tide still seven hours away, they announced shortly after noon that the decision had been made to put it down.
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