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Quote by: gallo  The problems involved in feeding a baby whale that hasn't been weened are beyond our abilities. Cow's milk it too weak and watery to do much more than prolong the starvation. The last time I checked, whale milk wasn't available at my local A & Poo Feed store. It would be nice if there were other whales around, especially lactating females who might adopt it, but that doesn't seem to be the case. It's a bit sad. |
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I know how to feed baby whales because I remember a similar incident in the U.S. years ago and have a good memory for this sort of thing. Basically you put vast quantities of butter and vitamins in regular milk and blend it up; its really not that hard compared to actually getting it into a whale. Do the Australians have an equivalent of Sea World?
What happened in the U.S. was they had a stranded gray whale that they fed for a while and then were able to release back into the wild.
http://www.seaworld.org/animal-info/...-20-1997-a.htm
As for our misguided sense of empathy, we need webcams of African children's hospitals. Humans aren't so great on empathy from just reading or hearing about it but let them see someone in distress and they act very differently.