More than 3,000 dolphins have been found dead on beaches in Perú this year, and environmentalists are so far stumped as to what could be the cause, Perú 21 reports. One theory is that powerful waves caused by oil exploration ships could have resulted in internal damage for the mammals.
The first hundred dolphins washed up on the shores in February, leading some to originally hypothesize they had consumed toxic fish, though testing unable to confirm this was the case. According to the Associated Press, the U.S. has paused similar acoustic testing for fear that it was having a fatal impact on the dolphin population. In addition to the dolphins, MSNBC reported thousands of anchovies have also been found dead on Peruvian beaches. Report curled from Huffignton Post.
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