Another Baby Dolphin Killed By Selfie-Seeking Tourists

Seriously, stop taking photos with wild animals.

It happened again: a baby dolphin in Argentina has been killed after being mobbed by tourists looking for the perfect selfie.

According to La Capital, a newspaper in Argentina, on Sunday tourists dragged the dolphin from the ocean in San Bernardo, about 200 miles south of Buenos Aires. A blurry YouTube video shows a crowd of people standing and kneeling around the small creature, touching and petting it.

“They let him die,” one observer quoted in La Capital told C5N, a TV news channel. “He was young and came to the shore. They could have returned him to the water—in fact, he was breathing. But everyone started taking photos and touching him. They said he was already dead.”

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