I’m dumbfounded and heartened by this story. I work on the assumption that naval sonar is the cause of at least some whale beachings. That a helpful dolphin could clean up the mess in this case just makes me wish I was 1/64 dolphin.
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.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7291501.stm
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