Anxious to save two injured wayward whales, a team of marine rescuers on Thursday played recorded humpback songs, hoping to lure the stranded mammals from the Sacramento River back to the sea.
The humpbacks, believed to be an adult female and her calf, were first spotted in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta on Sunday and have since meandered almost 90 miles upriver from their natural habitat in the Pacific Ocean along Northern California.

This has been on the news quite a bit lately but last I heard, the whales have still not been returned to the sea.

Dog nurses abandoned baby tigers

An amazing story came across the news wires yesterday: In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, a dog feeds tiger triplets and her own puppy, right, at the Paomaling Zoo in Jinan, capital of east China's Shandong Province, Wednesday, May 16, 2007. The tiger triplets were rejected by their mother shortly after their birth. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Lu Chuanquan). Wonder what kind of music inspired this kind of altruism??

Music brings an unusual animal to visit

At the moment I'm on vacation in Sarasota, FL. Earlier today I was just home from the beach and was sitting at a friend's computer reading some email. I was softly humming to myself when suddenly my friend called me quietly to tip-toe over to the window. When I did, there was the most beautiful, snowy-white egret standing on the porch just looking around. Here is his picture. We were concerned at first that we would accidentally scare him away but then we started moving around and he just stood there looking at us. Did the music draw him in? He never made a sound but he sure seemed to be listening to something. What do you think?