Helpless dolphins are tagged with GPS turning the sea into a bloodbath

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Danish Faroe Islands August 28, 2023:
A pod of around 15 Atlantic white-sided dolphins were driven towards a bay in the village of Norðragøta, north of the archipelago’s capital Tórshavn, to be fitted with a tracker. Five speed boats, whose crews banged against the edge to scare them, circled the pod and forced them towards a shallow, rocky shore.

Local researchers then drilled into the base of two dolphins’ dorsal fins as bright blood stained the clear water surrounding them.

One helpless dolphin had a probe shoved down its throat in what is believed to be an attempt to implant an “electronic pill” which monitors the mammal’s internal temperature.

“The experience was terribly traumatic. They cornered the two animals they would tag, and one had to hear the drilling and feel the panic of its pod-mate while waiting for what would happen to it next...

Pls. read the whole story on Daily Express
https://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/1807952/dolphins-fins-gps-tags-faroe-islands

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