Green | November 30, 2011 | 3 comments

Fifth dead dolphin in a week found in Mississippi Gulf

source: http://blog.gulflive.com/mississippi-press-news/2011/11/alabama_stranded_dolphin_survi.html

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GULFPORT, Mississippi -- A stranded dolphin found alive in the marsh near Fort Morgan, Alabama continues to improve, said Moby Solangi, director of the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies at Gulfport.

Another dead dolphin, the fifth in the past week, was found at Waveland on Monday, he said.

"They are all about the same age, which is the group of animals that would have been born earlier this year in February and March," Solangi said. "They were less than a year old and still dependent on their mothers."

All the dead dolphins were about 5½-feet long, he said.

"These animals move in the wintertime," Solangi said. "They move toward the south of the barrier islands because of the water temperature and the food has moved toward the south."

The discovery of dead dolphins is a rarity in November, he said.

The live dolphin, found Friday, is recovering in a quarantine tank at the facility.

"It is orientating itself," Solangi said.

The survivor, named Chance by its Alabama rescuers, has been the subject of a battery of tests, he said.

"This was the second time," he said. "The first time when we got him it was a pretty quick deal. We wanted to get him stable. Today we did a battery of tests so that we could send them out."

The survivor and dead dolphins are part of an ongoing series of strandings that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has classified as an "Unusual Mortality Event" in the northern Gulf of Mexico that began February 2010.

NOAA's Office of Protected Resources updated its stranding count Tuesday to 603. The Nov. 20 total had been 596.

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3 comments // Fifth dead dolphin in a week found in Mississippi Gulf

  • csmonut
    • +1
      csmonut  

    • Oh....wouldn't want the people to KNOW about anything IMPORTANT. Nope...just keep putting on the celebrities that break the law or have hair.....they're important!
      I did hear a good report a month or so ago. The people that are getting their news from non-mainstream media is growing rapidly as people are disgusted with celebrities with hair making the news.
      Also, since the approval rating of our government is at 12%, people WANT another source of information because they are gradually learning mainstream media is full of bull.
      OCCUPY THE COUNTRY!!!
      OCCUPY THE WORLD!!

    • 6 months ago
  • JanforGore
  • JanforGore
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      JanforGore  

    • A crime has taken place and it is being covered up. BP murdered the Gulf but it like so many other crimes is to just be forgotten. This is a tragedy.

    • 6 months ago
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