Japanese rescuers abandon efforts to save 150 melon-headed whales stranded on Hokota beach

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-04-10/mass-dolphin-stranding-japanese-race-to-save-pod/6384814


On Friday rescuers had been battling to stop the creatures' skin from drying out as they lay on a beach in Hokota, about 100 kilometres north-east of Tokyo, while some were being carried in slings back towards the ocean.


But as darkness fell, local officials in Hokota called off the rescue effort. They said they had only been able to save three of the animals that had beached.