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Baby dolphin rescued from field
Japanese animal rescue volunteers have saved a porpoise from a rice field after it was washed 1.2 miles inland by the March 11 tsunami, the Asahi daily reported.
Ryo Taira and his group were in the devastated area around Sendai rescuing cats and dogs when they received a phone call that took them a while to comprehend.
"There's a dolphin in the rice fields!" said the caller, Masayuki Sato, 55, confusing the baby porpoise with the similar-looking sea mammal.
The volunteers rushed the site at nearby Ishinomaki, where they saw the animal - a finless porpoise or "sunameli" (Neophocaena phocaenoides) - wriggling in a flooded rice field.
They made a stretcher from car parts and a futon mattress they found in the tsunami wreckage, and tried to catch the porpoise with a net.
When the animal eluded them, Taira waded into the field in his rubber boots and picked it up in his arms, the report said.
Japanese animal rescue volunteers have saved a porpoise from a rice field after it was washed 1.2 miles inland by the March 11 tsunami, the Asahi daily reported.
Ryo Taira and his group were in the devastated area around Sendai rescuing cats and dogs when they received a phone call that took them a while to comprehend.
"There's a dolphin in the rice fields!" said the caller, Masayuki Sato, 55, confusing the baby porpoise with the similar-looking sea mammal.
The volunteers rushed the site at nearby Ishinomaki, where they saw the animal - a finless porpoise or "sunameli" (Neophocaena phocaenoides) - wriggling in a flooded rice field.
They made a stretcher from car parts and a futon mattress they found in the tsunami wreckage, and tried to catch the porpoise with a net.
When the animal eluded them, Taira waded into the field in his rubber boots and picked it up in his arms, the report said.
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