Endangered Baby Dolphin Dies Because Tourists Wanted To Take Selfies With It…Seriously
In this month’s WTF news, two endangered dolphins were PULLED out of the ocean by tourists at Santa Teresita beach in Buenos Aires, Argentina. One of the dolphins tragically died after a mob of people passed the poor little thing around for selfies… SELFIES! Chalk this up to one of the unforeseen perils of technology and social media.
It all started when a baby Franciscana dolphin came very close to shore near a beach resort in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Usually people are quick to get the dolphin back to open water — you know, to save its life — but these people had a different plan.
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Bystanders picked it up from the water, brought it to shore and set it on the ground.
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Why would you even take the dolphin out of the water?
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Then all hell broke loose as beachgoers crammed around the dolphin for selfies.
Baby dolphin dies after being passed around beach for selfies https://t.co/26xdF2rsEC pic.twitter.com/uwngcdEPJZ
— Evening Standard (@standardnews) February 18, 2016
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After they got their fill of photographs with the baby dolphin, it was abandoned on the beach and left to die.
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“This terribly unfortunate event is an example of the casual cruelty people can inflict when they use animals for entertainment purposes, without thinking of the animal’s needs,” a spokeswoman for Australia’s World Animal Protection branch told ABC Australia. “At least one of these dolphins suffered a horrific, traumatic and utterly unnecessary death, for the sake of a few photographs.”
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People quickly took to Twitter to announce their outrage and condemn the people responsible for the dolphin’s death, kind of like this:
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People lost faith in humanity after reading the news.
Can't stop thinking about that poor baby dolphin that died because tourists dragged it out the ocean, people are so vile?
— ❤️ (@theonewithelly) February 18, 2016
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While others just attribute the sad scene to the evolution of the human psyche.
https://twitter.com/ColTalbot1/status/700310523125108736
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Some people just want to join a different species after seeing the harm caused by those humans.
A baby dolphin died on a beach because tourists were passing it around to take selfies with. WTF? No. *Distances self from human race.
— Em Rusciano (@EmRusciano) February 18, 2016
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And others seem to be losing hope in society all together.
So a bunch of people on the beach got a baby dolphin out of the sea to take selfies and it died. State of the human race.
— Mukund' (@FergusonTime) February 18, 2016
