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High Number of Sick Dolphins May Be Linked to Gulf Oil Spill

Tue, 2012-03-27 17:38 — Kathy Gilbeaux

by Jeanna Bryner - livescience.com - March 26, 2012

Sickly, underweight bottlenose dolphins living and dying in the northern Gulf of Mexico may be the result of exposure to oil that gushed into the water after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion.

Barataria Bay in the Gulf was particularly affected by the oil for a prolonged period, the researchers noted. So to get a bead on dolphin health, they conducted comprehensive physicals of 32 live dolphins in Barataria Bay during the summer of 2011.

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