February 17, 2012 | 12:30 PM | By

“Much data, few answers in Cape Cod dolphin strandings”

This is as close as I’ve seen to the story I would like to do on the record-setting mass stranding of dolphins, if only I had the time – about all the science that gets done, and the mixed blessing that such events are for marine mammal researchers.


Over the past five weeks, 178 dolphins have stranded on Cape Cod. Most have been dead, but the painstaking process of tending, hauling, and releasing the live ones is exacting a physical and emotional toll that grows greater every day. It is a toll made all the heavier because the reasons for the strandings remain a mystery.

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