It's New Zealand whale slaughter again. Yesterday a herd of around 75 cetaceans washed up on the beach of Spirits Bay, 320 kilometers from Auckland and over 150 people including rangers, volunteers and members of the Maori community worked all night to try to keep the 24 surviving pilot whales alive. , wetting their mantle and trying to push them into a more sheltered lagoon.
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves him
It is again the massacre of whale in New Zealand. Yesterday a herd of about 75 cetaceans he beached on the beach of the Spirits Bay, 320 kilometers from Auckland and over 150 people including rangers, volunteers and members of the Maori community worked all night to try to keep the 24 surviving pilot whales alive by wetting their mantles and trying to push them into a more sheltered lagoon.
Unfortunately with the winds blowing in 100 km per hour and waves up to two meters high do not make the task easy for the rescuers who have tried to to bring the whales together in a single group and bring them closer to a watercourse. Only tomorrow, weather permitting, will it be possible to hoist the cetaceans on trucks and try to bring them back to calmer waters.
The animals “seem to have understood that we are taking care of them and that they are in good hands. They answer and communicate with the people who touch them and talk to them ", commented the spokesperson for the department for environmental protection. Sue Campbell in an interview with Radio New Zealand.
It still remains to understand the exact number of deceased whales why many carcasses have been pushed offshore by the current, but above all the reasons for this representing the second mass stranding in the area, in just over two months. Some attribute the phenomenon to the shallow waters that would cause a disturbance in their sonars, but the theory is also valid that a sick member takes the lead of the group and the others follow him: "Pilot whales are very sociable and live in family groups. closely related, so if one or two run aground, the others follow. But we don't know why the former go ashore, ”Campbell concluded.
