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Baby dolphin dies after swimmers pass it around.

And there wasn't even one nice human being to say how WRONG this is.

Makes me really sad every time I see it on social media. -_-

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EDIT: Some folks have said that the baby dolphin was already dead. I personally do not think so because it looks alive in the first photo (look at the eyes and skin color) I think it wasn't dead; but rather weak and close to death. It could have been saved. Plus, people do not usually touch a dead animal and hand it around happily.
Even if it was already dead, it would still make me sad because its death probably had a REASON; Baby dolphins don't randomly die on the shores everyday.

Dolphins breathe air but if they stay out of water long enough, they can die of heat and dehydration.

Some others have commented that it wasn't endangered; Well, still doesn't make it OK to cause its death. Humans aren’t endangered, are they?

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