A carcass of a ten-feet-long dolphin washed ashore on Kuakata beach at Kalapara in Patukhali on Friday.
It was a bottlenose dolphin. It came along with the tide in the morning and got stuck on the sand in the eastern side of the beach.
Member of Kuakata Dolphin Protection Committee, Abul Hossain Raju, said there are injury marks on the dolphin’s body. He believes that it might have died two or three days ago and came floating with the high tide on Friday morning. A member of their organization Jonny Alamgir spotted the dolphin first. He immediately informed the committee members and the officials of Mohipur Forrest Division. Range Officer of Mahipur Forest Department Abul Kalam Azad said that they sent their forest workers to the spot after receiving information about the dolphin. After recovering the carcass, they will take sample and bury it.
Earlier, members of Animal Lovers Organization rescued a 6-feet-long bottlenose dolphin alive from a canal of Andharmanik River estuary in Kalapara on Thursday. Later, it was released into the ocean in Kuakata.
