A man named Michael McCarthy was in his canoe while paddling through the waters at the Intracoastal Waterway near St. Petersburg located in Florida when he suddenly noticed a familiar fish of silver color in the waters in front of him. A dolphin was swimming in the waters and it seemed it was cradling a small yet limp body.
At first, McCarthy thought of the body to be the dinner of the dolphin but when he got closer to it, the thing that the dolphin was cradling around in the waters, actually left him feelings ad and heartbroken.
McCarthy who owns the See-Through Canoe Company in the area told media, “It took me a minute to actually bracer myself for seeing what the dolphin was actually haggling around. I believed it to be a redfish that the dolphin had caught as its dinner but as I got closer it dawned on me that it was actually dolphin’s own dead calf.”
McCarthy seeing the scene took out his camera to film this burial procession by a mother dolphin. She was caressing the body of the calf while nuzzling her nose with its body in her dance of grief.
The dolphin was not alone; a few other dolphins came to the spot and seemed as if they were trying to comfort their companion. The other dolphin joined the mother dolphin for a short while and then went on their way. One dolphin still stayed by the side of the grieving mother.
It seemed that the calf had been caught in a motorboat incident which McCarthy had seen a few times. McCarthy said the injury seemed to be caused by the propeller of a boat. He said that he knows well as to how a propeller wound seems like.
McCarthy states that people normally think that dolphins are fast and agile and they can easily evade the oncoming boats. While this is true, baby dolphins are very vulnerable to such scenarios. They are not able to swim fast enough; they also need to come to the surface frequently for taking breaths.
The video was posted by McCarthy over Twitter and it has been viewed by 76000 people so far.
McCarthy wrote, “It was really hard to watch the grief of the mother. This image is going to be stuck in my head for a while now.”
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