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Old 22-08-2008

If the drugs they used to kill it are not harmful to other animals when eaten they should tow it out to sea for it to complete the food chain.

From the footage I saw on TV it would have been more humane to shoot it in the brain, possibly with a exploding tip. They caught it and injected it with sedatives and then killed it with an overdose of anesthetic acording to the news.
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YouTube - Colin (Collette) the Baby Whale lost its mom in Pittwater - Sydney

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Why doesn't Sea World take it? Sea World San Diego took an orphan humback a while back and were able to rear it and then released to the wild.
Actually, no. That was an orphaned gray whale. Gigi, to be exact.

Unless they (more recently) did indeed rescue a humpback?
 


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