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None of the dolphins’ causes of death have been confirmed. Dolphins off the coast of Mauritius are dying at an alarming rate weeks after a ship spilled thousands of gallons of oil in the area ...
Offshore deaths of multiple whales are unlikely to lead to multiple strandings, since winds and currents are variable and will scatter a group of corpses. Most carcasses never reach the coast, and are scavenged, or decompose enough to sink to the ocean bottom, where the carcass forms the basis of a unique local ecosystem called a whale fall.
A resort in the Bahamas that shut down during the Covid-19 pandemic is responsible for the deaths of eight dolphins and the neglect of another five, a dolphin conservation organisation has claimed ...
Turk, 15; Gus, 14; and Nate, 20; died at Gulf World Marine Park, leading experts to question conditions and dolphin safety at the Florida attraction.
All dolphins died between 5.5 and 13.5 days of entering a freshwater stretch of the river upstream of Wingham during a king tide, and then were unable to return downstream. Extensive testing of the last surviving dolphin was carried out after it was able.to be captured by a skilled multi disciplinary team including the Sea World Foundation.
The U.S. Geological Survey's website listed about 90 mass deaths of birds and other wildlife from June through 12 December 2010; [37] Louisiana's State Wildlife Veterinarian Jim LaCour stated that there had been 16 similar mass blackbird deaths in the previous 30 years. [38]
Whale and dolphin deaths on the East Coast have local environmental activists and politicians questioning the safety of wind farms. Whales Are Mysteriously Dying in New Jersey. No, It's Not ...
Of these, three have been confirmed as Hector's dolphins and, where the cause of death could be determined, the deaths of all but one were from disease and natural causes. [38] The single Hector's or Māui dolphin death attributed to fishing was captured in a set net off Cape Egmont, in Taranaki waters in January 2012. [38]