"They’re testing to see if the dolphins were infected with a virus.”

“It seems Peruvian authorities are closer to finding the cause of the death … an official at country’s Ministry of Environment, said the dolphins were most likely killed by the morbillivirus — a type of highly infectious virus…”

But environmentalists believe a Houston-based oil company, BPZ, could be at fault for the deaths. BPZ recently used sound waves off northern Peru for oil exploration. A writer for Ecology explains.

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