[arista]

Originally Posted by parmnion

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

OK shows how Dumb they are

[user104658]

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.

[Cherie]

It does put a different spin on it IF the dolphin was already dead, poor taste but no crime committed, I'm not watching the video to ascertain this though

[Parmy]

Originally Posted by Cherie

It does put a different spin on it IF the dolphin was already dead, poor taste but no crime committed, I'm not watching the video to ascertain this though

It was one of many washed up on this and other nearby beaches.

[Ammi]

..the baby dolphin was alive when it was removed from the water...it did seem to be removed with some care but not only was it vulnerable because it was a baby, it was also a Franciscana dolphin, which are a diminishing species...with only around 30,000 left in the world...

..a statement from the Argentine Wildlife Foundation, who would know how the baby dolphin died and that it died out of the water/as a result of being taken out..and a public reminder in hope that no one would think to do it again...the pics that I've seen of how extremely quickly it's skin and body burned in the sun with how it was left are really quite grim...and it froze/didn't thrash about because, with being separated from it's mum as well as taken out of the water, I would think that maybe it went into shock...



"The Franciscana, like other species, cannot remain for much time outside of the water, it has thick fatty skin which gives it heat and means that taking it out of the water rapidly causes it to dehydrate and die," it said in a statement.

"This occasion serves to inform the public about the urgent necessity to return these dolphins to the sea as soon as possible if they find them on the shore.

"It is fundamental that people help to rescue these animals, because every Franciscana counts now."

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Cherie

It does put a different spin on it IF the dolphin was already dead, poor taste but no crime committed, I'm not watching the video to ascertain this though

Yeah it does, very tasteless but atleast the poor thing didn't die the way we first thought