Global News - May 2008
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Senegalese fishermen save stranded whales
Thu 22 May 2008 14:00 UK — Africa,Marine Wildlife
Fishermen from Senegal have managed to save dozens of pilot whales after around 100 mysteriously beached themselves on Africa's most westerly point.
Reuters reported that local fishermen discovered around 100 of the mammals had come ashore close to Yoff on the Cap Vert peninsula.
The local communities worked through the night, dragging as many of the whales as possible back out to sea.
In the end, the fishermen estimated that they managed to save around 80 of the whales.
One local resident told the news agency: "No one slept last night because all the fishermen were called out to help save the whales."
Another, Elima Bah, added: "About 100 of the big fish washed up on the beach … We got about 80 back into the water with ropes, our pirogues and our hands. But the ones still here are dead now."
Local wildlife experts said that no one understood why the whales had beached themselves. They said a similar incident happened on the same spot about 30 years ago.
"It's like a collective suicide. Even when you push them out, they still keep coming back," local expert Ali Haidar explained to Reuters.
"It's something to do with their navigational and orientation systems getting disturbed."
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