Sedatives used to free whale from fishing line

Friday, January 28, 2011 - 17:30 in Biology & Nature

(AP) -- Researchers have a new tactic to save endangered whales tangled in fishing line: Get them to calm down with sedatives shot from a dart gun so they can pull closer and cut the potentially fatal gear away.

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