Wednesday, July 29, 2009

This ended very poorly.......


Jesus. There are many people I wish this fate on.
Dunham, an injured dolphin that was nursed back to health for seven months and released Tuesday, was attacked and killed later in the day by a large shark. The Atlantic bottlenose dolphin was rescued in December off Anclote Key, emaciated and battered with cuts. He was released Tuesday morning from Honeymoon Island and briefly joined a pod of passing dolphin before heading south toward Clearwater Beach on his own. Approximately three hours later, as staff from Clearwater Marine Aquarium, Gulf World Marine Park and Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute continued to follow Dunham in two boats, he surfaced bloody and in great distress. Before anyone could safely move in to help, he surfaced again with even worse bite wounds.

2 comments:

Kath said...

ohhhh, darn it.

Wek said...

I guess they should have let nature run its course and not rescued the dolphin in the 1st place.