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Five dolphins were rescued Monday after getting stranded on a beach in Cape Cod, with video showing the pod being helped back into the ocean.
The dolphins were stranded in Brewster and Wellfleet, but released at Herring Cove in Provincetown, Massachusetts, according to the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), whose stranding team had local and federal help.
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One dolphin, a young calf, died before staff from the IFAW was able to get to it off Brewster s Ellis Landing, the nonprofit said. Another dolphin in the group that stranded off Lieutenant Island in Wellfleet died, while two others were able to swim away.
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Critically Endangered North Atlantic Right Whale Succumbs To Entanglement Wounds
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WASHINGTON, March 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/
After over 4 months of suffering severe entanglement in heavy fishing gear, an 11-year old male North Atlantic right whale nicknamed
Cottontail by researchers has died off the coast of South Carolina.
Since October, disentanglement attempts were made by both the Center for Coastal Studies and the International Fund for Animal Welfare. Unsuccessful due largely to weather conditions, Cottontail s chances of survival remained grim. These whales must maneuver through an industrialized waterway dense with intense shipping traffic and an estimated one million commercial vertical fishing lines in the water column. This journey to their feeding grounds, which the species has taken for centuries, is becoming a journey of no return, said Brian Sharp, IFAW s Director of Marine Mammal Rescue & Research.