Discovery Channel video with Jim Dines on the Whale Warehouse - submitted by Mary

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Watch this video from the Discovery Channel with Jim Dines, Mammology Collections Manager.
(be patient with the commercials)

http://www.discovery.ca/Video?vid=567781

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