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Originally Posted by parmnion

http://nervemedia.org.uk/nerve/endan...a-for-selfies/

Well, if "nervemedia" says that "one of the tourists who took a selfie" has said that it was dead, then I guess we all have egg on our faces. Not that, you know, one of the tourists who took a selfie with it might be trying to deflect some of the blame/shame by claiming that it was already dead.


I have watched the video and it is alive at first. It's dead by the end. It does sort of look like some of the people in the crowd are trying to help it while others are just trying to touch it / take pictures. TBH it looks like most of the crowd is just there "because there's a crowd" and they're trying to see what the drama is all about.

But yeah. It isn't thrashing about all over the place but it does move its tail and flippers a few times at the start of the video, after being taken out of the water. If it was washed up dead, then it's a zombie dolphin.

Also worth noting is that there's already a fair crowd at the START of the video, which would suggest that the dolphin was first plucked from the water a good bit of time before someone started filming.