Reading Dolphin
Song to grand kids
Martine is just getting used to her new life on
the game reserve with her grandmother and the white giraffe, Jemmy, when she
must go away. Her class is going on a trip—an ocean voyage to watch the sardine
run, a spectacular natural phenomenon off the coast of South Africa
A reprint:
Tasmania: Whales & Dolphins-Mother & Baby
The scene of a mass whale and dolphin stranding on King Island
Photographer: John Nievaart of Naracoopa Holiday units
Photographer: John Nievaart of Naracoopa Holiday units
“We see dolphins and whales beaching and dying for reasons we do not understand and men make all the effort to save them and nearly all the time fail.” The Cockroach Catcher
Jemma Blomhoff with her 4 months old daughter Jordyn on her back cares for this dolphin
Photographer: JAY TOWN
Someday Jordyn Blomhoff who was only 4 months old could tell her friends: I was there saving a dolphin. Would being taken to save whales and dolphins at 4 months of age appear on the new DSM or ICD code?
"When I heard, I grabbed some buckets. Jordyn was still in her pyjamas," said Ms Blomhoff, her mother.
"They told us to find one [animal] and stick to it. Ours was a dolphin. We just tipped water over him continuously. When the water was on his face he would lift his face and open his blowhole as if he was really enjoying it.
"They took him to the water in the carrier and when they put him back, he went silly. They had to hold him so he could get some strength back. He was lifting his tail. It was excellent. So it had a happy ending." From Tasmania’s paper
The Mercury
Others are not so lucky.
It has been a horror summer for Tasmanian whale strandings.
Pilot whales stranded on Seven Mile beach.
Photo: Peter Lord
On November 22, 64 long-fined pilot whales stranded at Stanley in the state's northwest. Eleven were rescued.
The rugged coast of Tasmania which claimed the lives of 155 whales.
Photo: The Examiner Newspaper
On November 29, 155 long-finned pilot whales died south of Arthur River on the West Coast and 32 were saved.
And in January, 48 sperm whales -- the huge species mythologised in the novel Moby-Dick -- died on a sandbar near Smithton in the state's North-West.
Some strandings have been linked to naval sonar activity. In 2005 the Royal Australian Navy said it would avoid areas where whales were known to be stranding.
There is still so little we know about the natural world and the last words go to Sir Peter Scott:
Photographer: JAY TOWN
Whales and other marine mammals rely on their hearing for life's most basic functions, such as orientation and communication. Sound is how they find food, find friends, find a mate, and find their way through the world every day.
So when a sound thousands of times more powerful than a jet engine fills their ears, the results can be devastating -- and even deadly.
This is the reality that whales and other marine mammals face because of human-caused noise in the ocean, whether it's the sound of airguns used in oil exploration or subs and ships emitting sonar. Manmade sound waves can drown out the noises that marine mammals rely on for their very survival, causing serious injury and even death.
"We shan't save all we should like to,
but we shall save a great deal more than if we had never tried."
Sir Peter Scott (1909-89)
WWF founder 1961
but we shall save a great deal more than if we had never tried."
Sir Peter Scott (1909-89)
WWF founder 1961
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