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Asahi Shimbun, Yusaku Kanagawa / AP More than a week after Japan's devastating earthquake and tsunami, rescue workers near the town of Asahi noticed something unusual swimming in a flooded rice field -- a 3-foot-long porpoise. Since the flooding on March 11, the displaced porpoise had apparently been stranded in the flooded rice paddy located about a mile from the shore, according BBC News. Locals saw the porpoise and felt they had to do something. "Immediately after I spotted it, I realized I could not ignore it," Masayuki Sato told the Asahi newspaper. "This was also a victim of the tsunami." According to the BBC, Sato called a local animal welfare group currently working to rescue ...