Tuesday 10 October 2017

US Navy Dolphins to Save the Vaquita


In a last-ditch attempt by USA and Mexico to save the nearly extinct Vaquita Porpoise, the US Navy has delpoyed four of its trained bottlenose dolphins to locate Vaquitas, which will be captured for captive breeding and satellite tagging. Vaquita populations have plummeted to a mere thirty, because of gillnets used to fish Totoaba off the Gulf of California. 

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