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Dolphin found dead on beach riddled with bullets, NOAA offers $20k reward to find killer

www.usatoday.com Dolphin found dead on beach riddled with bullets, NOAA offers $20k reward to find killer

NOAA fisheries said that a dead bottlenose dolphin was found on West Mae’s Beach in Cameron Parish, Louisiana with multiple gunshot wounds on March 13.

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Bullets slow down exponentially in water. They caught a dolphin and then shot it to death on land.
- Or shot a curious dolphin at the surface.
  
  I wonder about that. Aren't dolphins and whales non-buoyant, in the sense that they sink when they die?
  Looking, I find https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/what-happens-when-whales-die.html
  I guess the dolphin may have been at the floating stage?

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