WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT – At least 40 dolphins have died near a Mauritius oil spill. A mother dolphin and her baby were among the dead. Read more about what witnesses saw here:
Environmentalists have demanded an investigation into whether the dolphins were killed as a result of the spill from a Japanese ship, which was scuttled on Monday after running aground in July and leaking oil.
“There was a mother and her baby,” he said. “He was very tired, he didn’t swim well. But the mum stayed alongside him, she didn’t leave her baby to go with the group. All the way she stayed with him. She was trying to protect him.”Heenaye, his boat running low on fuel, motioned to Reuben Pillay, who tracked the mother dolphin. She initially looked normal, he said.
“She swam in circles in front of the boat, she moved her tail very violently and after about five minutes she just stopped moving, and she sunk ... We heard cries, I thought it was a woman on the boat - but they told me, no - it was the dolphin.” Autopsy results on 25 dolphins that washed ashore Wednesday and Thursday are expected in the coming days, he said.
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