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Moko the dolphin, 2008

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Moko the dolphin, 2008

Moko, a bottlenose dolphin, first started visiting Māhia Peninsula’s beaches and interacting with swimmers in March 2007. In 2008 it led two trapped pygmy sperm whales back out to sea after human intervention failed.

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Kerryn Pollock, Hawke’s Bay places – Māhia, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/24288/moko-the-dolphin-2008 (accessed 24 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Kerryn Pollock, i tāngia i te 19 August 2009, updated 30 November 2015.

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Kerryn
08 July 2010
R.I.P. Moko - found dead on Matakana Island in the Bay of Plenty today.