Solitary Male Bottlenose Dolphin Killed 6 Harbor Porpoises And Scientists Don T Know Why
Bottlenose dolphins have been documented acting aggressively towards harbor porpoises since the late 1990s. Scientists first noticed the behavior off the coast of Scotland, where dolphins would attack porpoises, causing fractures to their skeletons and damaging their internal organs. Tooth marks were also found on several porpoise carcasses. After this, similar cases were reported off the coasts of Wales, California and North Carolina. In a study published in BMC Zoology in September, researchers have looked at events that took place in the German Baltic Sea over three months in the fall of 2016....