(CNN) — After more than 100 dolphins were found stranded off Cape Cod, Massachusetts, the numbers had dwindled down to between 10 to 20 dolphins circling in the harbor by Saturday morning following a 12-hour rescue effort by the International Fund for Animal Welfare, a spokesperson said. In what the IFAW described as possibly “the largest...
Hurricane Beryl becomes Category 4 storm, makes landfall in Carriacou. Click for the forecast.“Cape Cod is a global stranding hotspot due to the curvature of our shores and the fluctuation of our tides,” Stacey Hedman, with the International Fund for Animal Welfare, said.
Hedman added: “Those spotted this morning are likely the same dolphins. They are still swimming but close to shore,” noting that low tide was set to begin at noon.“We had 125 Atlantic white-sided dolphins strand and 10 died before we arrived,” Hedman said in an email to CNN on Friday. The rescue operation, in which at least 25 fund workers and 100 volunteers assisted, was ongoing on Saturday.
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