A five-hour necropsy was performed at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab on the bottlenose dolphin found dead Monday on North Beach in Fairhope. But the dolphin’s level of decomposition means a cause of death “may not be able to be determined.'
Published:The dolphin’s level of decomposition means a cause of death may not be able to be determined.A cause of death may never be known for the dolphin that washed up on a Baldwin County beach Monday, the Alabama Marine Mammal Stranding Network said Tuesday.
But the dolphin’s level of decomposition means a cause of death “may not be able to be determined,” the network said Tuesday. The dolphin had signs of “prolonged freshwater exposure,” including skin lesions and algae matted on its body. Anyone who encounters a stranded, injured, or dead marine mammal is advised to not push the animal back into the water.
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