After 125 dolphins stranded around the American peninsula of Cape Cod on Friday, major efforts were made the next day to prevent more dolphins from meeting the same fate.
Friday’s stranding – in which ten dolphins died – was the most extensive around the peninsula in more than 25 years.
125 dolphins stranded around Cape Cod in the US Massachusetts on Friday and ten dolphins died. The area is a site of frequent strandings, which experts believe is partly due to the peninsula’s hook-like shape and extreme tides.
Threatened to be stranded
During Saturday, an animal rescue organization carried out a major effort to prevent more dolphins from stranding. The organization stated that they had, among other things, discovered ten dolphins at a dangerously shallow spot but managed to guide them towards deeper water, reports AP.
Further efforts were underway Saturday to try to guide 25 other dolphins swimming at a shallow area where the tide threatened to strand the dolphins.
Difficult conditions
Rescue efforts were made more difficult on Friday by, among other things, muddy water and the fact that the dolphins had spread out over large areas, the news agency writes.