Bid to Save Whales Drags Into 3rd Week

May 27th, 2007 in Space & Earth / Environment
Bid to Save Whales Drags Into 3rd Week

A mother humpback whale and her calf surface as Fish and Game officials look on Friday, May 25, 2007, in Rio Vista, Calif. The wayward whales were spotted about a mile and a half north of a Sacramento River bridge about 70 miles inland from the Pacific Ocean where they have been circling for several days, said Greg Hurner, a spokesman for the state Department of Fish and Game. (AP Photo/ Paul Chinn, POOL)

(AP) -- Everyone seems to have a suggestion to get two wayward whales lingering in the Sacramento River to swim 70 miles back to the Pacific Ocean. One person suggested towing life-sized replicas of orcas behind the whales to scare the recalcitrant mother humpback and her calf. Another proposed placing a giant magnet downriver, since humpbacks are thought to navigate by an internal compass that can sense magnetic north.

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