UNFORTUNATELY, ANIMALS-OVER-HUMANS LIBERAL WHACKOISM HAS CREPT INTO THE RESCUE EFFORT
Rescue workers recovering bodies of tsunami victims in southern Thailand were working hard Monday to keep two special survivors alive: a female dolphin and her calf swept into a small lagoon by powerful waves.
The animals, believed to be a female Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin and her roughly 3-year-old offspring, were spotted Monday by a local man searching for his missing wife more than a mile from the coast.
The mother, about seven feet long, appeared to have been injured on her back.
"I reckon ... they came in with the initial wave, and when the water retreated, they couldn't get back again, probably because it's pretty deep in here," said Edwin Wiek, a Dutchman who is director of the Wildlife Friends of Thailand Rescue Center. More...
The animals, believed to be a female Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin and her roughly 3-year-old offspring, were spotted Monday by a local man searching for his missing wife more than a mile from the coast.
The mother, about seven feet long, appeared to have been injured on her back.
"I reckon ... they came in with the initial wave, and when the water retreated, they couldn't get back again, probably because it's pretty deep in here," said Edwin Wiek, a Dutchman who is director of the Wildlife Friends of Thailand Rescue Center. More...
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