Two dolphins -- one with a gunshot wound to the face and another with a stab wound to the head -- have washed up on Florida shores and authorities are now offering a hefty award to help figure out who did this to them and why. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission made a grisly discovery
Two dolphins -- one with a gunshot wound to the face and another with a stab wound to the head -- have washed up on Florida shores and authorities are now offering a hefty award to help figure out who did this to them and why.
“The animal was fatally wounded from what appeared to be a bullet and/or a sharp object,” said the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in a statement. “Within the same week, Emerald Coast Wildlife Refuge experts recovered a dolphin with a bullet in its left side along Pensacola Beach, Florida.”These incidents follow a discovery off of Captiva Island, Florida, last May of a dolphin that was found dead on the coast with a fatal puncture wound to its head.
Biologists believe that these cases could stem from humans feeding wild dolphins and are encouraging the public to refrain from doing so.MORE: 2 people arrested after video of horse being dragged by pickup truck goes viral The Marine Mammal Protection Act prohibits anybody from attempting to harass, hunt, kill or feed wild dolphins and is punishable by up to a year in prison and up to $100,000 in fines.The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration actively enforce these rules and recent prosecutions include a Kansas man being fined $1,250 for feeding a dolphin while on vacation in Florida and a conviction and jail sentence of a fishing captain who made homemade pipe bombs and threw them at dolphins.
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