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Volunteers work tirelessly to save beached baby whale in Rio
- Published_at:2017-08-24
- Category:News & Politics
- Channel:Daily World News Stuff # 4
- tags: Race against time save 32ft whale stranded Rio beach
- description: Humpback home! 32ft baby whale returns to sea after volunteers use JCBs to save seven ton mammal that was stranded for 24 hours on a Rio de Janeiro beach Baby whale washed ashore overnight Wednesday on beach 120 miles from Rio 300 volunteers struggled with spades and JCBs to get it back in the water They dug a channel out to the ocean before tidal waters carried it back out Experts believe calf got lost while migrating from the coast to Antartica Over three hundred people are celebrating after a mammoth effort to save the life of a stranded humpback baby whale, that got stuck on a Rio de Janeiro beach, ended successfully with the creature being released into the ocean in the late afternoon. A video shows the whale being refloated in the South Atlantic Ocean with scores of people screaming and shouting for joy. Many were crying as the marine mammal was finally returned to its rightful home after being beached for nearly 24 hours.
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