From "La Repubblica"
The expert: "I've never seen anything like it. I tried to push them for days at sea"
The organization of the dolphin Moko: rescued stranded whales' WELLINGTON - A dolphin was able to drive and bring two large sperm whales that had stranded on the beach at Mahia on the east coast of North Island, one of the major islands of New Zealand. The female specimen bottlenose dolphin, which beach goers have nicknamed Moko, was able to communicate with the two cetaceans (pygmy sperm whales) that were likely to die on the beach and taking them away to save them from the mainland. Look at the pictures of Moko "I have never seen such a thing, that's amazing," said Malcolm Smith, an official of the Conservation Department. Smith said Monday that the sperm whales were stranded on several occasions, despite his attempts - all unsuccessful - to get them away from the beach. The whales, a female three-meter and its smaller than a meter and a half, they were disoriented, apparently disturbed by a sandbar near the beach and could not to find the way to the sea. VIDEO: THE STORY OF WITNESSES "For an hour and a half I tried to push them into the sea, but were reluctant to leave the dock," he continued. "They were exhausted," he said, "and I had gotten to the point that I thought would not make it more, I did my best." Then came Moko, used to swim among the swimmers, approaching boats to be caressed and push the nose of the kayak. The dolphin has started to produce sounds and communicate. "Sperm whales are able to establish contact and Moko escorted them about 200 meters to the edge of the sandbar," said Smith, "then did a turn through quite a narrow channel and escorted them at sea.
Since then the two whales were far from the beach at Mahia, where each year some thirty whales get stranded, most of which can not be saved. "I do not know if the next time a whale is stranded we will return to Moko, "said the expert," surely this time he saved the day for us and the lives of two sperm whales. "
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