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To: bentway who wrote (601584)2/24/2011 1:40:53 PM
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Scientist: Baby dolphin deaths had '07 precedent
Feb 24 01:15 PM US/Eastern

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A federal scientist says a recent surge of baby bottlenosed dolphin deaths has a precedent four years ago in Texas.

In March 2007, 68 dolphins washed up in Galveston and Jefferson counties. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientist Blair Mase says those included an unusual number of infants.

NOAA spokeswoman Kim Amendola (am-en-DOH-luh) says that this year in Mississippi, Alabama, the Florida panhandle and Louisiana, 48 dolphins were stranded and 29 of them were calves. The calf deaths were concentrated in Mississipi and Alabama.

Possible causes include cold winter and disease. Scientists also are investigating whether there was a link to the BP oil spill. But they say the only spike in deaths is in one dolphin species.
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