Dolphins saves mother humpback and baby from male whales.

Dolphins Come to the Rescue of a Humpback Mother and Her Baby

Dolphins are known to be incredibly smart and very social animals. They are skilled hunters, and while they are also adorable, but when needed they can sometimes be aggressive.

These animals serve also as the ocean's patrol, and there are several stories that they have saved human lives.  Many divers and swimmers have shared stories of dolphins pulling them to the surface when they have run out of oxygen or protecting them from sharks and other predators in the ocean.

Mother and baby humpback

Recently, a pod of dolphins showed that they have compassion even for other animals.

When a female whale and her baby were attacked by male whales, the dolphins came to their rescue. The female whale, whose name is Spirit, was swimming with her calf off the coast of Flinders Bay, on the southwest coast of Western Australia when a group of five large males swam towards them and fought to mate with the mother.

Dolphins and whales

The mother was not interested in mating, as she was still raising her young calf. Male whales will kill babies in order to get the mother to mate with them and Spirit knew that she had to protect her baby. She did everything she could, but she was simply outnumbered.

Then, all of a sudden, a group of dolphin swam towards them. They surrounded the mother and baby, blocking the males from getting to the troubled whales. Members of Whale Watch WA saw and recorded the entire ordeal. The dolphins stayed with the exhausted mother and some of them even showed their teeth to the male whales to scare them away.

Whale Watch WA

The Whale Watch members who witnessed the incident are all amazed. They fascinated for that incredible moment that whales and dolphins have a close relationship with each other.

Thanks to these protectors, they have saved two lives.

“Dolphins can lead us to an understanding of how to live in harmony with the twin needs of individuality and cooperation. Dolphin carries balance, peace, joy, compassion, love and power.”

- Loren Cruden