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Why is this making so much news? Please don't fuel people's emotive reactions with this "Today Tonight" type journalism. Shouldn't this title read, "Colin's mum suspected dead for days"?Sorry, there is more people starving in the world than "Colins" and they get my sympathy and effort far sooner.This is nature and has been happening for millions of years. Get over it. Next story please...
Posted by: John of Perth 3:13pm today

Would people have preferred the small calf be devoured, slowly and painfully by sharks; or worse, by starvation? Its a terrible thing, but its nature and its nice to know that he was given a more peaceful and painless exit than what would have been his fate otherwise. I praise the NSWPS for doing what needed to be done for the whale, and not what every other selfish, uneducated person wanted for themselves.
Posted by: K of Brisbane 3:11pm today

*** Ms Barnes also defended the NPWS handling of the calf's mercy killing, saying it gave her a ¿peaceful, respectful and dignified end¿. ***Strange how trying to do the same thing for a terminally ill human is murder.Hypocrites.
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WILDLIFE experts will conduct DNA tests on a whale they believe may have been the mother of a lost calf nicknamed Colin, hours after the young whale was euthanased.

The Daily Telegraph reports the development came as National Parks and Wildlife head Sally Barnes revealed Colin was actually Colleen - a female humpback whale calf.

It is believed a whale carcass being eaten by sharks near Eden on the NSW South Coast may have been her mother, explaining why the young whale turned up alone and hungry in Pittwater on Sunday.

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Ms Barnes also defended the NPWS handling of the calf`s mercy killing, saying it gave her a “peaceful, respectful and dignified end”.

However, witnesses have disputed this account, saying the young whale thrashed and struggled until the very end. One compared the scene to a Japanese whaling expedition.

"We had five minutes and during that time they euthanased poor Colin," Captain Alexander John Littingham from the Divine Marine Group said on Fairfax radio.

The activist organisation had organised a legal injunction against the NPWS to prevent Colin being killed but could not serve it in time.

"That was a scene that we witnessed ... and then they towed the whale behind their National Parks and Wildlife boat. It looked like a scene out of the Antarctic with a Japanese fishing boat.

"It was absolutely disgusting."

National Parks and Wildlife Services spokesman John Dengate said the whale`s death was the "best possible result" in the circumstances.

"That was the best way it could have been done," he said.

"You put the animal out of its misery."

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Colin the whale given lethal injection

AN abandoned humpback baby whale has been put down after all hopes of saving its life faded.
Gallery Pictures: Colin the whale