The Yunnan project dealing with marine animal rescue said: Because of the inherent dangers to humans and animals in the area, trapped cetaceans are rarely returned to the water.
Pete Island is an area closed from the outside world, where few people live, great white sharks breed in the nearby waters. Locals called for help from the neighboring Chatham Islands, where 215 glass-nosed dolphins washed up on Saturday. On the islands located only forty kilometers to the north, the animals found alive were shot by game rangers in order to save them from further suffering.
Dolphins are very social creatures. In mass delinquency, it often happens that survivors swim back to find their mates, but this behavior further complicates the successful rescue.
Similar cases are not rare on the Chatham Islands: in 1918, more than a thousand animals died stranded off the coast of the island.
The current phenomenon was also reported on Twitter, and a video of a similar incident was filmed four years ago, also in New Zealand:
He was in Waitangi West the day before the delinquency – and another group is stranded today in Wayher Bay, Pete Island (Rangiaoria), with some of the group remaining in the water: https://t.co/4dGTBF6i4c https://t.co/zHyg4O96e4 pic.twitter.com/J7AfeT9Fok
– Christopher Stevens (@CMKMSStevens) October 10 2022
Opening photo: MTI / EPA / DOC / Matt Nalder
