Rescuers try to reunite stranded baby orca with pod | nzherald.co.nz 

Absolutely 😍 hopefully he makes it back to his family 🙏🏼🤞💙

@@tenut1 where have you been? He died!

No it isn't. It's supremacy at its worst and shows just how superior humans, especially white humans think they are. Let nature take its course and stay out of it. This is no better than white people helping black people because they think that black people are dumb and incapable of helping themselves.

I'm sorry to be the one to tell you this, but Toa didn't make it. He died before they even found his family.

​@@CJ55981 poor little guy 😔

Toa knew that he was being cared for, fed around the clock, protected as he slept and swum with as he exercised etc in a visceral/real-world sense. Orca definitely have the intellectual capacity to understand that something (else) is feeding & caring for them in that instance, even at that age, but what he really thought of his carers and how he processed that in emotional terms is simply beyond us.

​@@CJ55981 Oh no 😔 poor baby Orca 😢

Poor little whale. 😢

Poor baby... 😭

I remember that.

💖🐳💖😢

He had probably gone too long without her milk. 😢

Toa died! And they found Toa's pod very nearby! They killed Toa by not letting him go! His family was right there!

Toa died Angela!

@@AsIseeitPattiDail so very sad. Heartbreaking 😞

@@angelamcbain7763 Yes it is heartbreaking!

Hello Angela

ORCA

@@AsIseeitPattiDail Yes, Dolphins, or Whale Killers .

@@AsIseeitPattiDail Orcas are members of the dolphin family.

@@CleverClover2023 I KNOW! TY

Sadly, he didn't.

They did, but too late. He was already dead when they found them.

He died unfortunately :(

@@Shadamyfan-rs8xc 😭💔.. at least he was shown a lot of human 💓💕🤗🤗... Before his sad passing. 😔

@@sandrawilkinson3782 yeah. Rip Toa

He died ten days later. They were unable to find his pod.

Toa's pectoral & fluke injuries were successfully rehabbed and he was back to swimming ok, but the rough weather prevented any further attempts to locate his pod at that point. Sadly, after the stress of his injuries and being away from the support/security of his pod, he eventually passed away before the stormy weather had subsided and his pod could be located again.

The calf died and they later found the pod nearby.

Not very often with Orca, but things like pilot whale strandings happen more frequently.

Toa's pod had left the area (of his stranding) a few hours after it had happened, understandable as they could no longer hear him in the water and thus lost their communication connection to him. Miracle (his mother) and their pod were tracked heading further around the coast and across to Kapiti Island to get out of the stormy weather, but they didn't come back into Parerua harbour until many months later.

Hello Alice

😢😢😢😢💖🐳

It’s Toa

@@kaylaadlington7364 Ah ok, thank you. Toa is good, too ❤️

R.I.P Toa

@@O.K.Smiley 🕊

SeaWorld is no longer allowed to take orcas

Toa died unfortunately

@@kaylaadlington7364 • seriously? That’s extremely frustrating under such circumstances

Yup. He survived about two weeks then “suddenly passed away”. Devastated but what else could we have expected? I’m surprised he lasted that long :(

@@crunchbumbum4009 • died of a broken heart. I wouldn’t doubt it tbh being just how closely tied together Orca mothers are w/ their Babies and the whole Family Pod.

Hello Darcelle

I looked it up on Google. This Orca died 10 days after this video was posted. The cause of death is unknown.

Hello Katherina

That's what they *are* doing. They've been an animal rescue organization for years.

Toa was immediately swum back out to his pod TWICE, in very dangerous sea conditions, by local volunteers. His injuries (from the initial stranding) meant he could no longer swim which is why he kept washing up. His pod moved up the coast because they could no longer hear him as he was stranded out of the water, so the decision was made to rehab his injuries and try to get him back to his pod asap. There are less than 200 NZ orca left alive thanks to human effects on their marine environment, so any effort to save them is well worth it to counteract the massively negative human effects upon "mother nature". If you saw a human baby injured and lying on the ground by itself would you tell everyone to leave it alone to die? Do you take (or give family members) medicine or go to the hospital, why not just leave your health to mother nature as you preach?

@@Nui. His pod was spotted near Kapiti island but they didn’t let him go, I do believe if they let him go earlier he would of eventually made it to his pod. A human baby is very different than a orca, I don’t get your point? of course I would help a baby are you stupid? I’m meaning it’s nature, if Toa died it’s Nature! it Happens!

@@cupcakkexpeaches2217 You hillbilly. If we left it to nature despite the human interference in their cycle. Orco would have been extinct by now. For the wrong things that are inflicted on nature, we gotta try and correct it.

SeaWorld itself is an animal rescue organization.

yeah and prison is human rescue organization

@@anabacic100 jeez. Get your facts straight, man. It really makes me sick how people completely ignore how many good things SeaWorld has done to marine animals. You focus on the parts you consider "bad", when there's absolutely nothing wrong with what they're doing. Open your eyes already! Why are you letting foolish agenda brainwash you?

@@anabacic100 and by the way. Prisons, in a way, *are* human rescue organizations. They help people rehabilitate themselves morally, and if it doesn't work, then they protect human society from danger (temporarily at least).

Seriously, what are you actually talking about? Baby Orca Toa died peacefully in his sea-pen, in the arms of his carers, and he was never tagged or released! You are right about him missing his mother and pod though.

Maori

In Maori it means "Hero"

@@harrycurrie9664 Not where I come from. ( N Z ) you are thinking of toanga ( heroism ) toa means warrior, brave, Champion.

Like many wild animals, Orca can be susceptible to picking up human diseases/illness so NZ DOC protocols ask that anyone handling them wear masks/gloves as a precaution. Given the calf was already in a weakened state (from it's injuries) it was a wise precautionary measure.

Orca (like most wild animals) are susceptible to picking up human diseases and illness via direct and air-borne particle contraction. DOC protocol was to wear masks to avoid any further harm to the baby orca, so it makes logical sense. Probably better to ask if you don't have a clue about something, rather than (hypocritically) looking like an idiot yourself.

@@Nui. Bullshit, and I still don't look like the idiot. Masks don't do anything, even for people. Outside in the sun they're an even dumber idea.

@@CarbonGlassMan masks saved millions of lifes you expert!

@@useme2305 No they did not and you have zero evidence that they did. What is wrong with you people? Fauci said they dont' help, then he said they did, then we found private emails of his that he sent to his friends saying they do virtually nothing to prevent spreading of viruses. At what point do you stop lisening to the so-called experts and just use your common sense? You know what helps the most to prevent viral spread? Washing your hands.

@@CarbonGlassMan Well when you can read the minds of Orca, to the point you know that they can recognize masks and think they're a silly idea - given all the data, let alone you apparently know better than medical experts and scientists.... who can argue with that logic.

Not silly if you know why it was done, just logical. Humans can pass on illnesses/diseases to many wild animals, so using gloves & masks around an (already weakened) baby orca was simply a wise precautionary measure.

sameeeeeee

You are not a nice decent person are you, pathetic excuse for a human being

Aussie ayy?????

Just ignore him, he's jealous because he has such a shit life.