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A lost humpback whale calf swims in Pittwater, 40 km north of Sydney August 21, 2008. An baby whale which has been desperately trying to suckle from a yacht in a Sydney bay in a futile bid to find its missing mother is to be humanely destroyed
Friday, Aug. 22, 2008

Open quote It's a tragic end to a week when dozens of people have put their souls into saving him. Sydney had adopted him. Close quote

  • JOHN DENGATE,
  • spokesman for Australia's National Parks and Wildlife Service, after putting down a baby humpback whale that had been discovered suckling a yacht it thought was its dead mother
Photo: Daniel Munoz / REUTERS | Source: Bloomberg