dolphin saves beached whales
In a time where hundreds of species die out each day, it is stories like this that drive home the importance of a diverse planet.
A dolphin has come to the rescue of two whales which had become stranded on a beach in New Zealand.
Conservation officer Malcolm Smith told the BBC that he and a group of other people had tried in vain for an hour and a half to get the whales to sea.
The pygmy sperm whales had repeatedly beached, and both they and the humans were tired and set to give up, he said.
But then the dolphin appeared, communicated with the whales, and led them to safety.
“I don’t speak whale and I don’t speak dolphin,” Mr Smith told the BBC, “but there was obviously something that went on because the two whales changed their attitude from being quite distressed to following the dolphin quite willingly and directly along the beach and straight out to sea.”
I’ll bet somebody out there can speak to a whale. I don’t think we’re incapable of speaking and listening to nonhuman animals, it’s just that we’ve forgot how.
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