Wash-ashores

For the past month or so, common dolphins (Delphinus delphis) have been stranding themselves in record numbers on Wellfleet’s bay and harbor beaches. Here and here are some video clips from CNN.

Wellfleet has always been a hotspot for this sort of thing; the clean cold waters of the harbor are full of good things to eat, and the tidal amplitude can exceed twelve feet. But what’s been happening lately is puzzlingly anomalous, and nobody has an answer.

I’ll be spending the next week or so out there, and will see what I can learn from the professionals on the scene.

3 Comments

  1. the one eyed man says

    Considering that you split your time between Brooklyn and the Cape, are you rooting for the Giants or the Patriots?

    Posted February 4, 2012 at 8:31 pm | Permalink
  2. Malcolm says

    It’s complicated further by Tom Brady being a former Michigan QB. But Giants, all the way.

    Posted February 4, 2012 at 11:52 pm | Permalink
  3. Those dolphins are just trying to evolve . . . a bit too quickly.

    Either that, or Cthulhu is finally awakening.

    Jeffery Hodges

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    Posted February 5, 2012 at 1:24 pm | Permalink

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