Baby dolphin dies after sunbathers pull it from water and pose for SELFIES on packed tourist beach

UK Mirror ^ | August 16, 2017 | Tom Worden

[C19fan]

A baby dolphin has died after sunbathers reportedly pulled it from the sea and posed for selfies with it on a packed tourist beach.

The small female, still of breastfeeding age, lost its mother and became stranded in shallow waters off the coast of southern Spain.

[C19fan]

Sick people. Not one person in the mob thought about the welfare of the baby?

[stinkerpot65]

Please. It’s a fish.

[The SISU kid]

Ummm.... Actually it’s a mammal!

[HypatiaTaught]

And you are just a ...

I have no idea what you are.

[Bayard]

Don’t baby dolphin lives matter?

[Bikkuri]

Dolphins have breasts?

[dfwgator]

I hate people.

[skr]

It’s a mammal, not a fish, and decent people have some empathy for baby animals.

[Chickensoup]

mammals give milk

[skr]

They have mammory slits from which the calves nurse. They are warm-blooded and have live births.

[Celerity]

I’ve toured that section of the planet a few times. All tourists from there behave in this way - sickening.

They take apart Blarney castle and walk away with the pieces.

US Tourists are great.

[VietVet876]

Watch what happens the next time some human flounders in the rip current off that beach. Flipper and his droogs might just wave their middle digits.

[Bikkuri]

I knew that they were mammals, but I didn’t know about the mammary slits (let alone breasts ;^)).

[NELSON111]

Really? You deserve every inch of flame you’re gonna get. Having dominion over creation doesn’t mean killing baby dolphins to take selphies.

[slimjim12]

Actually, it’s a mammal. Didn’t you pay attention in high school?

[ManHunter]

I think he’s already answered that question...

[SMARTY]

I think ‘bearing live offspring’ = Mammal

[stinkerpot65]

Ok, its a tuna with lungs.

Still a fish. It has fins. It lives in the ocean.

[Crucial]

I think for the most part this wouldn’t happen in America.

[Moltke]

Other than a sensationalistic headline, there is little to suggest that the picture taking killed the dolphin, uncaring as it may have been. In fact, it says it had lost its mother, which seems a more likely cause.