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A wayward white beluga whale swims up the Delaware River near Trenton, N.J., April 13, 2005, as a State Police boat keeps watch, at left.
The 12- to 15-foot whale made its way upriver from Delaware Bay past Philadelphia and Camden, drawing crowds of onlookers to the banks of the river. Authorities hoped the whale would find its way south to open water, but said curious boaters were hampering its movement.
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Spectators line a fence while looking for a wayward whale meandering up the Delaware River, at sunset near Trenton, N.J., April 13, 2005.
Paul Loriquet, a spokesman for the state Attorney General's Office, watched the scene unfold from his office. "Four news helicopters are hovering overhead," he said. "The train is stopping on the train trestle, people are lining up along the river. It's like the city has gone mad."
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Spectators peer into the setting sun in search of a wayward whale swimming up the Delaware River, near Trenton, N.J., April 13, 2005.
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State Police Sgt. Sean Cronin, left, talks to officers Keith Trottman and Gary Vona about a beluga whale swimming in the Delaware River, while on a patrol boat near Bordentown, N.J., April 13, 2005.
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People standing on the shores of the Delaware River in Bordentown, N.J., point to a white beluga whale, April 13, 2005.
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A beluga whale surfaces while swimming in the Delaware River channel in Mansfield Township, N.J., April 13, 2005.
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A beluga whale surfaces while swimming in the Delaware River channel in Mansfield Township, N.J., April 13, 2005.
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A beluga whale surfaces while swimming in the Delaware River near Florence, N.J., April 13, 2005.
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A beluga whale surfaces in the Delaware River near Florence, N.J., April 13, 2005.
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The back of a beluga whale, left, breaks the surface of the Delaware River as state officials observe its behavior, April 13, 2005, in Burlington City, N.J.
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Bob Schoelkopf, left, Director of the Marine Mammal Stranding Center, speaks to reporters in Burlington City, N.J., after observing the beluga whale swimming in the Delaware River, April 13, 2005. Schoelkopf said the whale may be a juvenile unable to fend for itself in the open ocean, or an adult that chased a school of herring up the river.
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Bob Cunningham, left, and his mother, Noreen, try to spot a beluga whale swimming in the Delaware River, near Trenton, N.J., April 12, 2005.
