The Daily Mail UK
written by James Nye
Thursday March 28, 2013
A touching and beautiful display of compassion from a bereaved mother dolphin stunned the experienced captain of a tourist boat off the coast of Dana Point, California.
Instead of treating his passengers to a dolphin stampede of an up-close encounter with a whale, Captain Dave Anderson encountered a dolphin carrying her dead calf on her dorsal fin through the waves.
Never in his twenty-years on the ocean has the captain witnessed what he did on Tuesday as he and his customers observed the sad funeral procession from the grieving mother and surrounding dolphins.
'In my nearly twenty years on the water whale watching I have never seen this behavior,' he wrote on his YouTube channel.
'Nor have I ever seen anything quite as moving as this mother who refuses to let go of her poor calf.
'Did mom start off helping her weak, sick offspring swim to the surface to breathe for days till the tiny dolphin died?
'When will she give up on her calf? Will she continue carrying her deceased on her back until the carcass begins to disintegrate?
'This poor grieving mother dolphin takes us, without words, to a place where as one of our passengers said in the video 'humans and dolphins are not so different.'
One passenger called Tony Green, shared similar thoughts.
'The last thing I expected to see today was a funeral procession," said Green. 'It was pretty profound for me to think about ... emotions that animals feel.'
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