Mutilated And Murdered Dolphins Discovered Along The Gulf Coast!!!

Authorities are on the lookout for dolphin murderers after a string of dead dolphins with gunshot wounds, fins cut off, and jaws missing began turning up on the Gulf Coast, the AP reports.

The unsettling trend started about a year ago, with mutilated dolphins washing up on beaches in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, but has picked up over the last few months.

Just last weekend, a dolphin with a bullet in its kidneys was found on the Mississippi coastline, the Sun-Herald's Mary Perez reported.

"Animals don't eat each other's tails off," Moby Solangi, the executive director of the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies, told Perez. "We think there's someone or some group on a rampage. They not only kill them but also mutilate them."

A scientist from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Florida told the AP that she doesn't think the murders are being carried about by a "gang of people," or even just one person, since the cases are spread out.

Hunting, capturing, harassing, or killing any marine mammal is banned under the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972. Anyone who violates this act can be fined up to $100,000.


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this is so so sad!!!

No one cares???

I'm with ya on this Luis. When I was at the beach in September the dolphins were out playing in the waves. It's such cool thing to see. I can't understand why someone would want to do this.

This just hurts all lovers of God's animals. What a vile wicked person. Why reach out and kill innocent dolphins?
To hurt everyone that is of a good heart at once I guess.

I care......but it does no good.
I look at it like this.......what comes around goes around, or you reap what you sow, so in that case, those involved in such butchery will get the same.
They don't believe this because the repercussions do not take place right away and this is very well cuz (if it did happen right away it would be a dead giveaway, so this is why it ultimately catches up with you) not until they consciously realize why their life has become a living HELL and some other being does something to them that is beyond horrific and they stop to wonder just how in the hell this happened to them, they will never notice and see the suffering they caused to another living being.
So, its best to allow them to live it for themselves, unfortunately its the only way humans learn....their suffering will stay with them and transform them.
All is as it should be!

Last Edited by Parrot-in-FlipFlops on 11/20/2012 12:44 PM

From what I understand they like to hear the dolphins "scream".

Sick sick people. They will get caught, we may not get to witness it, but they will. So sad for the innocent animals. Dolphins are such beautiful, intelligent and playful creatures.

dolphins are highly intelligent creatures

this is very fucked up

I hope so.