Some people might find the images in this report distressing.
The number of marine animals that stranded on Scotland’s beaches has increased sharply over the past thirty years.
That’s according to scientists at the University of Glasgow who looked at the number of individual mammals getting stuck.
It comes after a number of mass strandings in the north in recent years.
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