Poor Colin!!

I'm not sure if the US news has caught onto this story, but there has been an abandoned baby hump back whale off the Sydney shores. They've named him Colin and for the past few days have been trying to figure out a way to save him.... Unfortunately they haven't come up with anything and are going to put him down.

Now I'm not usually one of those big 'save the whales' type person, but I think you at least have to give it a go and try to save the poor creature. Their reasoning for not trying to pull a Shamu type rescue project is that they don't have the facilities to take care of him, the fact that he is something like 2,000 km away from where he would need to be go get his natural food once he's healthy and being raised by humans would mean he doesn't learn the hump backs language. I can understand these points... then there is the fact that his health is apparently deteriorating.

For the last days he's been going from boat to boat trying to suckle and feed. He almost got away this morning when he wasn't in his usual spot - but they've found him at a dock closer to land and so will be trying to capture him and put him down today. :( sad day