Article 5YBZB Dolphin’s stabbing death investigated by Florida wildlife officials

Dolphin’s stabbing death investigated by Florida wildlife officials

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Richard Luscombe in Miami
from Environment | The Guardian on (#5YBZB)

Necropsy suggests marine mammal was impaled in the head with a spear-like object' while being illegally fed

Wildlife officials in Florida are investigating the mysterious death of a bottlenose dolphin that was recovered on a beach with an apparent stab wound to the head.

The mammal, which was found on Fort Myers beach in the south-west of the state on 24 March, is believed to have been killed deliberately, probably while it was being fed illegally by humans.

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