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Depressing Update: Dolphin Near Chelsea Piers Starved To Death
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Ben Yakas
Published Jul 6, 2012
Modified Jul 6, 2012
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Last month, a lone dolphin was spotted swimming near Chelsea Piers in lower Manhattan; at the time, director of the Riverhead Foundation's rescue program Kimberly Durham noted that seeing a dolphin close to shore "can be an indication that something is not right." The dolphin sadly later turned up dead, and now we know why: marine researchers told DNAInfo the dolphin starved to death.
"We basically found an emaciated dolphin with no signs of food—so the animal had not been eating," said Kim Durham, a biologist with the Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation. "Just an extremely emaciated animal, with not enough food to survive—if it had been eating at all." At least it wasn't attacked? This is thoroughly depressing news, we know. To make up for it, here's a video of a cat playing with a dolphin:
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