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The mature female whale has been tentatively identified as a Gervais' beaked whale or a Sowerby's beaked whale, said Dorian Houser, a consulting biologist with the Navy Marine Mammal Program in San Diego.

The whale was discovered in shallow waters behind a home in Islamorada. It was transported to the Marine Mammal Conservancy in Key Largo⁵.

Houser and Navy staff scientist James Finneran made a trip to the conservancy to establish a hearing baseline measure for the whale－something that has only been done once for a Gervais' and never for a Sowerby's. That gives them data they can use for comparison purposes in the future.

"These animals are very rare," Houser said. "Usually when you find one stranded⁶, it's dead."Researchers were taking blood samples from the 14-foot (4.3-meter)-long, 1,595-pound (723.5-kilogram) whale to try to determine why it got stranded. It also was being rehydrated with fluids through a tube in its stomach every four hours.

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