So long and thanks for all the fish

Anyone (or any nation) that believes our ocean-going cousins are not worth saving should take a lesson from Moko, a dolphin well-known to locals in Mahia Beach, New Zealand. Moko profoundly shocked scientists and conservationists on Monday by guiding two pygmy sperm whales back to sea after they repeatedly beached themselves. The mother and calf, after multiple attempts to push them from the sandbar, were tired and likely heading for death, when Moko appeared on the scene. Using what one witness could only describe as the bottlenose literally talking to the whales, Moko guided the whales from their precarious position out to a channel and back to the deep sea. The whales have not returned since.

Perhaps Douglas Adams was right all along.

And how any government (hello, Tokyo?) can condone the mass slaughter of these obviously intelligent mammals escapes me.

jblaque, I thought you'd get a kick out of this.