Baby Dolphin Dies After Tourists Pass It Around For Selfies
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A rare baby dolphin has died on the beach after selfish tourists pulled it from the ocean so they could take selfies with it.
Shocking footage from Santa Teresita beach in Buenos Aires, Argentina, shows the body of the marine mammal lying motionless on the floor as dozens of people surround it.
The Franciscana dolphin had been passed around between sun worshippers while they took out their phones and posed for pictures.
They look more like locals than "tourists" to me. No need to villify tourists who often are way ahead of the curve on environmental matters. But gosh, it's flagrant stupidity and selfishness.
Oh man, this breaks my heart. Just seeing it lay there lifeless How did they thinking taking it out of the water, into the sun, was a good idea?! Common sense, people
This makes me absolutely ill. Will the stupidity/cruelty of people towards animals never end? And what bugs me more is there wasn't one person out of all those people who said something, who cared? If I was there, you can bet I would have tried to stop this.
A rare baby dolphin has died on the beach after selfish tourists pulled it from the ocean so they could take selfies with it.
Shocking footage from Santa Teresita beach in Buenos Aires, Argentina, shows the body of the marine mammal lying motionless on the floor as dozens of people surround it.
The Franciscana dolphin had been passed around between sun worshippers while they took out their phones and posed for pictures.
How cruel can people get in this world? I hope the people that did this go to prison.
It's the obsession with camera-phones. Everything's about snapping a pic or taking a vid, these days, instead of rescuing humans in distress or respecting nature.
I have to point out that the more-strident among the animal-rights and environmental advocacies sometimes have no more realistic a concept of how things "go down" out there in the real world than do the people of whom they want to sit in judgment.
The emergence of environmental concerns is a very recent event in the broader scope of human history, and it is concentrated within the middle and upper classes of the industrialized nations. It also tends to emphasize its concerns only among those with whom it is in agreement. Incidents like this probably take place a lot more often than is recognized, but there is no legal mechanism to prevent them, and probably no way to create one.
Last edited by 2nd trick op; 02-18-2016 at 05:19 PM..
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How did they thinking taking it out of the water, into the sun, was a good idea?! Common sense, people
