PRESS-JOURNAL Scottish students on a marine mammal field course in Iceland are investigating a rare sighting of the bottlenose whale in the country. Environmental and marine biology students from St Andrews University are observing a group of four whales spotted in a narrow fjord in Eyjafjördur.
The 14 students are on the international field course as part of a collaboration between St Andrews and the University of Iceland.
Normally considered a deep-diving, oceanic species, the bottlenose whales have been sighted regularly for more than a month close to shore.
Patrick Miller, of the Sea Mammal Research Unit at St Andrews, said one of the four whales was observed entangled on a buoy line a few days ago and only three whales have been seen since.
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