INDEPENDENT (UK) – An endangered dolphin was killed after beach-goers reportedly pulled it from the water in order to take photos with it.
The Franciscan dolphin died last week at the Santa Teresita resort in Buenos Aires, Argentina, after a scrum of people were photographed grabbing two or the marine animals out of the surf and passing them around.
Hernan Coria posted images on Facebook showing two dolphins being held aloft like trophies while grinning tourists were seemingly unaware or unbothered about the animals’ discomfort.
Another photo showed at least one of the animals had been left on the sand to die.
After the images from Santa Teresita emerged, the Argentine Wildlife Foundation issued a warning to the public about the dolphins’ vulnerability in the hope that it will prevent similar incidents.
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I love animals more than the majority of the human species.
look at these idiots i never saw humans act with such ignorance and no common sence at such a low state look at all of them just gawking at the poor animal, ok yall took pics with the thing you mean None of you have the BRAINS to say hey this thing could die cause it needs water let us put it back in ,None of you, and so many of you that was on the beach
Ignorance is a universal phenomena. So selfish of them to let "Flipper" die whilst they took their selfish "selfie" photos.
If that had happened on a Caribbean beach then some persons would have threatened to boycott the particular island where the incident occurred.
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