Dolphin Smile

Two pygmy sperm whales had been attempting to beach themselves on New Zealand shores and a group of people  tried in vein for an hour and a half to get the whales to sea. They were exhausted and about to give up when Moko, a well known bottlenose dolphin that regularly plays with the swimmers, showed up and went straight to the whales.

A Consevation Officer, Mr. Smith, who was present at the time said, “I don’t speak whale and I don’t speak dolphin but there was oviously something that went on because the two whales changed their attitude of being quite distressed to following the dolphin quite willingly and directly along the beach and straight out to sea.” He said, ” The whales have not been seen since, but Moko the dolphin, had returned to its usual practice of playing with swimmers in the bay.”

” I shouldn’t do this I know, we are meant to remain scientific,” Mr. Smith said, ”but I actually went into the water with the dolphin and gave it a pat afterwards because she really did save the day.”

Sounds to me like the whales and dolphins were able to communicate with and understand each other and it is nice to have a happy ending for a change.