Dolphin Calf Swimming Freely After Rescue Team Steps In
For weeks a young male bottlenose dolphin was seen in the waters of Lemon Bay near Englewood, Florida, with fishing line and gear wrapped around its body and tail, and through its mouth.
A team of biologists and veterinarians from nine organizations trained to respond to marine mammal strandings along Florida’s west coast, developed a plan to "catch both mom and her calf, take the gear off, conduct a short health assessment and release them back into the wild," according to NOAA Fisheries recent report...
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