PHUKET: Tourists at Phuket's Kata beach yesterday hoped a sick dolphin might respond to treatment but the creature died overnight.
''The shock was too great,'' a biologist at the Phuket Marine Biological Centre said today.
The female dolphin, about 15 years old and weighing 40 kilos, appeared to have a mouth injury that made eating difficult as well as as apparent virus.
She was discovered by jogger Aroon Changnam, 26, on the shore about 5.30am yesterday.
Two other dolphins with the injured creature swam back out to sea but the 1.8 metre female was not capable of escaping from the shallows.
Marine biologists carried the dolphin to the centre on Phuket's east coast where she was given antibiotics and suspended in a sling in a pool because she could not swim.
However, by this morning she was dead.
''The shock was too great,'' a biologist at the Phuket Marine Biological Centre said today.
The female dolphin, about 15 years old and weighing 40 kilos, appeared to have a mouth injury that made eating difficult as well as as apparent virus.
She was discovered by jogger Aroon Changnam, 26, on the shore about 5.30am yesterday.
Two other dolphins with the injured creature swam back out to sea but the 1.8 metre female was not capable of escaping from the shallows.
Marine biologists carried the dolphin to the centre on Phuket's east coast where she was given antibiotics and suspended in a sling in a pool because she could not swim.
However, by this morning she was dead.
Although it is disheartening to see that this individual porpoise did not survive, it is quite reassuring to see some aquatic life still thrives in these waters.
The commercial fishing pressure is quite heavy and I have been invited on several trips on longtails where our setting out 1 km long nets have resulted in a half dozen needlefish.
Posted by Concerned @ Elated on October 20, 2013 09:13