What on earth is going on with the dolphins? Just this week I
read about some 900 dead dolphins washing ashore in Northern
Peru, saw the viral video once again of that pod of dolphins
stranding in Brazil in front of beachgoers, and to top it all
off, heard that the mystery surrounding the death of two captive
dolphins in Switzerland last November was finally resolved when
a toxicology report found traces of a heroin substitute that led
to a possible overdose. In our neck of the woods, we also dealt
with our own dolphin crisis this year when an unprecedented 214
Common dolphins stranded in Cape Cod beaches. International Fund
for Animal Welfare’s Katie Moore is a dolphin expert and leads
the team that rescued 74% of the dolphins that stranded alive
and I sat down with her to learn more: MB: When did you first
hear about the dolphin strandings in Peru? How bad is it? KM: We
learned about the strandings in Peru a few months ago. We have
been in direct contact with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administrat