Sometimes when you need some good news you gotta turn to animals. This is an absolutely incredible story of two whales who got disoriented and beached themselves, repeatedly, before literally being rescued by a dolphin off the New Zealand coast.
Rescuers worked for more than one hour to get the whales back into the water, only to see them strand themselves four times on a sandbar slightly out to sea. It looked likely the whales would have to be euthanized to prevent them suffering a prolonged death, Smith said. . . .So this dolphin, whom locals say spends most days swimming playfully with humans at the beach, literally swam up to the whales and humans attempting a rescue in the water and got the whales to head out to sea. Absolutely unreal.
"Moko just came flying through the water and pushed in between us and the whales," said Juanita Symes, a rescuer. "She got them to head toward the hill, where the channel is. It was an amazing experience. The best day of my life."
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