It is sad, this recent story in the news regarding a pod of pilot whales in Florida. Some inadvertently beached themselves, dying as humans we're trying to steer them back out to sea. But it seems that they did not want to leave their companions who were not able to move.
"Rescuers had difficulty on Wednesday trying to persuade the surviving whales to leave their dead podmates and head out to sea. In most cases, highly cohesive species such as pilot whales refuse to leave their kind, no matter the risk to themselves."
Lori Marino, a professor of neuroscience and behavioral biology at Emory University states: "They seem to feel for each other. Their whole sense of self is distributed across the group. They take social bonding to a new level. They don't abandon each other."
We need to learn to be more like these whales...
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