Monday, February 21, 2011

Ongoing Tragic Results of the Gulf Oil Spill?!?!? {UpDated w/Video}

Infant dolphins dying in high numbers


JAMES EDWARD BATES/SUN HERALD nstitute for Marine Mammal Studies research intern Rhiannon Blake takes tissue and organ samples from a male baby dolphin discovered on the beach in Gulfport on Monday.

Feb. 21, 2011 - Baby dolphins, some barely three feet in length, are washing up along the Mississippi and Alabama coastlines at 10 times the normal rate of stillborn and infant deaths, researchers are finding.

The Sun Herald has learned that 17 young dolphins, either aborted before they reached maturity or dead soon after birth, have been collected along the shorelines.

The Institute of Marine Mammal Studies performed necropsies, animal autopsies, on two of the babies today.

Moby Solangi, director of the institute, called the high number of deaths an anomaly and told the Sun Herald that it is significant, especially in light of the BP oil spill throughout the spring and summer last year when millions of barrels of crude oil containing toxins and carcinogens spewed into the Gulf of Mexico. {continued}

Infant dolphin deaths spiking in Gulf after oil spill


February 21, 2011 - Baby dolphins, some barely three feet in length, are washing up along the Mississippi and Alabama coastlines at 10 times the normal rate of stillborn and infant deaths, researchers are finding.

The Sun Herald has learned that 17 young dolphins, either aborted before they reached maturity or dead soon after birth, have been collected along the shorelines.

The Institute of Marine Mammal Studies is doing necropsies, animal autopsies, on two of the babies now. {continued}


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