Dolphin Appears to Guide Whales to Sea

[Sequoia]

Most days, Moko the bottlenosed dolphin swims playfully with humans at a New Zealand beach. But this week, it seems, Moko found his mojo.

Witnesses described Wednesday how they saw the dolphin swim up to two stranded whales and guide them to safety.

Before Moko arrived, rescue workers had been working for more than an hour to get two pygmy sperm whales, a mother and her calf, back out to sea after they were stranded Monday off Mahia Beach, said Conservation Department worker Malcolm Smith.

But Smith said the whales restranded themselves four times on a sandbar slightly out to sea from the beach, about 300 miles northeast of the capital, Wellington. It looked likely they would have to be euthanized to prevent a prolonged death, he said.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=4434839

[lildreamer316]

1. Thank you for posting.

That makes my day.

[Flaxbee]

2. dolphins are just so incredibly intelligent

thanks for posting this. Sorry to hear the whales re-stranded themselves, but the dolphin aspect of the story is great.

[applegrove]

3. Awwwwwwwwwwe.