Arraial do Cabo, a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro. Photo source: ©© Mario Sergio Araujo dos Passos
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A dramatic video showing 30 beached dolphins being successfully rescued by beachgoers in Arraial do Cabo, in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, has become an internet sensation…
Photo courtesy of: © PGYC
Dolphin Pod rescue in Brazil, BBC
Accoustic Pollution and Marine Animals
Slew of Beached Whales Mystifies Scientists
Marine Animal Stranding Studies Advance Science, WHOI
In winter 2012, an unprecedented number of dolphins, nearly 180—stranded in Cape Cod Bay. Of those animals, 108 were dead on discovery, and 53 of the 71 found alive were successfully returned to the ocean. Researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s Marine Mammal Center (MMC), working with the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), believe the survival rate could be higher if we better understood dolphin physiology and behavior…
