Whale calf lost in Sydney waters, bonds with yacht (AP)
The 1- to 2-month-old calf was first sighted Sunday in waters off north Sydney, and on Monday tried to suckle from a yacht, which it would not leave. Rescuers towed the yacht lacking to sea, and the calf finally detached from the boat, but the creature returned to an inlet approaching Sydney Tuesday morning, New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service spokesman John Dengate before-mentioned.
The calf can’t survive without mother’s milk for long, Dengate told Australia’s Fairfax Radio Network.
“It’s probably a verbal contest of days rather than weeks,” he said. “It’s a very grim prognosis.”
Artificial feeding would be impossible, so the calf’s only hazard is to find one more female whale to take . it, he said.
“If a lactating female with a calf goes past and this calf approaches that animal it may accept it, but … it’s a very slim chance,” Dengate related.
From: Whale calf lost in Sydney waters, bonds through yacht (AP)
