Federal authorities are on the hunt for the suspect or suspects who killed adolphin by impaling it in the head with a spearlike object
Federal authorities are on the hunt for the suspect or suspects who killed a dolphin by impaling it in the head with a spearlike object.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced on Thursday that the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission had recovered a dead bottlenose dolphin along Upper Captiva Island in Lee County at the end of May. A necropsy revealed that the gregarious toothed whale had been impaled with a spearlike object while it was still alive.
"There was a wound penetrating from above and in front of the right eye, extending almost 6 inches toward the top and back of the head," the NOAA said."The wound ended inside the head at the top of the skull and had evidence of hemorrhaging, indicating wounds consistent with being impaled prior to death."
The dolphin was an adult male that biologists in the area were purportedly familiar with. He had last been seen swimming with other"begging dolphins," who commonly approach people who feed them. According to the necropsy, the dolphin may have been stabbed with an object while it was in a begging posture.
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