Monterey Bay researchers say dolphins are causing porpoise deaths

For the past five years, the growing number of dead harbor porpoises washing up on California shores has been a marine mystery -- until now.

[Downtown Retiree]

A dolphin gang claiming territory, I wonder if they're native to our waters?

[Maybe an accident]

Are we sure they're doing it on porpoise?

[Top priority]

Now the police are going to have to forget about gang activity and DUI's and make saving porpoises their top priority!

[good morning sunshine]

thanks for the laughs 1 & 2

:)

[GUV here to Help]

Maybe these dolphins need some outreach counciling.
I'll bet we can get stimulus fuding for that!

[west side]

Maybe the porpoises were Surenos or E/S.

[diogenes]

But Al Gore predicted this.

Unfortunately, his docu-fantasy ran over-budget and they had to cut out the part about animals attacking animals because of global warming.

[Marie L]

I am a sailor and have also witnessed this dolphin attack activity just near the Cement Ship off Seacliff State Beach. Our crew captured both video and photo footage of it in early August and shared it with Long Marine Lab, so hopefully as more data is collected, the research community can determine the cause of this strange behavior.

[jimi doss]

Kind of sad , but mother nature is what it is ya know ? Maybe porpoises and dolphins can fight each other but ya cant fight mother nature !

[Dave C]

I'm now waiting for the greenies to blame the dolphin attacks by spinning a tale about global warmning as being the cause.

[Dolph Nader]

Expanded hate crimes legistlation would have prevented this.

[Concerned driver]

Did I read correctly that the dolphins actually brought the porpoise carcass to the researchers? Maybe the dolphins thought the researchers wanted them to do it. Hmmm.

[Garmon]

This about scarcity of resources, we are all headed in this direction.

[GMA]

they are their own specie`s.. what are scientist`s going to do?? please just leave em bee.. study is one thing, intervening is another..

[TAW]

It's all ... George Bush's fault!

[SantaCruzResiden t]

Concerned driver wrote:

Did I read correctly that the dolphins actually brought the porpoise carcass to the researchers? Maybe the dolphins thought the researchers wanted them to do it. Hmmm.

I thought this was very odd too. What are the dolphins tryin to tell the researchers? That humans are next? Or that porpoise was a bad guy? All jokes aside, to me it's very interesting that they would do that.

[Reality Check]

diogenes wrote:

But Al Gore predicted this.
Unfortunately, his docu-fantasy ran over-budget and they had to cut out the part about animals attacking animals because of global warming.

Yeah, I hear the porpoises are deniers. You'd think sea animals would be down with rising sea levels - more territory.

[Scuba Steve]

I helped Longs Marine lab scoop a dead porpoise off the beach at New Brighton. It had it's ribs broken and it had dolphin teeth marks scrapped around the tail and back. Weird?

[localposter]

An apology should go out to the fishing industry. I saw a news report strongly suggesting that fisherman had something to do with it. Why are there people who cannot just accept the facts of life and let nature run its course? Uurrgghh!

[My opinion]

The missing tiki is behind all of this...trust me