Lending a Fin: Dolphins Help Tired Seal Pup Swim Kate Bevan - Daily Mail
go to original February 9, 2013

A group of dolphins help a lost seal find it's way back home. (oasishdchannel)

An incredible video has emerged of a kindly pod of dolphins helping save a baby seal from being washed up on a beach. In the video, captured by a Canadian film crew, the exhausted baby seal struggles against the current as it drifts ever closer to the shoreline and away from the safety of the deeper waters.

But just as it seems as though the pup will lose its battle against the waves, a family of dolphins emerge and lend a helping fin as they send the pup on its way. The lone pup had floated into the shallow waters and, exhausted, was drifting close to the shore, unable to save itself by swimming away.

Then grey shapes appear in the water nearby as a family of bottlenose dolphins swim into view. Curious, they swim up to the struggling pup, and then, seeing its distress, lend a helping fin by nudging the pup gently back to deeper waters.

The remarkable video was captured by a Canadian crew working on a series of documentaries entitled Return to Shark Island for the nature channel Oasis HD.

Creatures lending a helping hand - or fin, or wing - is widely recorded throughout the animal kingdom particularly in species with complex social structures.

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