A dolphin called Moko has made headlines, and possibly history, by apparently saving two
　　stranded[搁浅] whales. The pair of pygmy[矮小的] whales, a mother and a child, were stranded on the east coast of New Zealand’s North Island.
　　Rescuers struggled for an hour and a half to get the whales back into water, only to see them beached another four times, and were starting to contemplate[仔细思考] euthanasia[安乐死].
　　Rescuer: (I) was about to give up, and usually when that happens, the whales will stay on the beach, and we have to take the stress away from the situation.
　　Enter, Moko, who approached the whales, leading them along the beach, and through a channel out to open sea.
　　Rescuer: She came directly to where we were and established contact, and immediately those two whales seemed to relax.
　　There’s speculation[推测] Moko responded to the whales’ distress[痛苦] calls.
　　Rescuer: She did in a few minutes what, we had
　　actually being totally ineffective at doing over an hour and a half.
　　Moko’s well-known to the locals and anecdotal[轶事趣闻的] evidence abounds of dolphins protecting people lost at sea. But dolphin’s helping other marine[海的] life, it’s virtually [事实上] unheard of.
　　
　　一条名叫“莫科”的海豚因为拯救了两条搁浅的鲸鱼而登上头版头条，并很可能写下历史新一页。这两条小型鲸鱼是一对母子，它们在新西兰北岛的东海岸搁浅了。
　　救援人员全力抢救了一个半小时，试图将这两条鲸鱼送到海里，而它们却又四度游回海滩搁浅。救援人员开始
　　考虑对它们实施安乐死。
　　营救者：我正打算放弃，通常情况下，一旦搁浅，鲸鱼会一直停留在海滩上，我们只好采取措施，让它们少受苦。
　　这时，海豚莫科来了——它带领两条鲸鱼沿着海滩，穿越海峡，游回公海。
　　营救者：它直接游到我们的营救点，并和鲸鱼交流起来。这两条鲸鱼马上便放松下来了。
　　有人猜测，莫科对鲸鱼绝望的求救作出了回应。
　　营救者：事实上，我们的营救进行了超过一个半小时还是没有任何效果；而莫科只用了几分钟就完成了营救。
　　莫科对于当地人来说可谓鼎鼎有名，传言说，（当地）有许多海豚会保护在海上迷失的人类。不过，海豚救援其它海洋生物可真是头一回听说。