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Scientists scrutinize rise in baby dolphin deaths http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1298737573
Scientists are trying to figure out what killed 53 bottlenose dolphins - many of them babies - so far this year in the Gulf of Mexico, as five more of their carcasses washed up Thursday in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.
It's likely to be months before they get back lab work showing what caused the spontaneous abortions, premature births, deaths shortly after birth and adult deaths said Blair Mase, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's stranding coordinator for the Gulf Coast.
"It's not like CSI where the very next day they have the results in. It doesn't work that way, unfortunately," she said....
Solangi said he'd never seen anything like the calf deaths, or found word of anything like it in 30 years of records from his area - Alabama, Mississippi and east Louisiana....
"We've collected tissues and sent them off to various laboratories for pathology and toxicology," he said. "All we can tell is some of them may have been premature, some of them were stillborn and others may have just survived for a day or two and died."
Dolphins usually calve in March and April, he said.
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I can't see what toxic Gulf of Mexico event could possibly be causing so many premature births. The spill ended months ago.
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Didn't the oil impacts go away, just like the news coverage?
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