A successful rescue operation
was carried out by the Federal Attorney for
Environmental Protection (Profepa)
after they were alerted to the fate of 10 dolphins stranded in shallow water at
El Tesorso beach, in the municipality of La Paz.
The Profepa team found nine of
the dolphins to be alive and in good health – 8 long beaked common dolphins and
one common bottlenose dolphin. Sadly one had died - a long beaked common
dolphin – and has been taken to the Autonomous University of Baja California
Sur for an autopsy to be performed.
Bites marks on a number of the dolphins
suggests that there had been a fight between the two species. And it was likely
that the single bottlenose dolphin led the pod of long beak dolphins towards the
beach where they got stranded due to the low tides.
The 9 live dolphins were safely
released back into deep waters.