Scientist says dolphin deaths look like a mass suicide

Scientist says dolphin deaths look like a mass suicide

• Steven Morris
• The Guardian,
• Thursday June 12 2008
• Article history

The dolphins that died after becoming beached in Cornwall had ingested debris and mud, leading one of the scientists who examined some of the corpses to compare their deaths to a "mass suicide".

Vic Simpson, who has been involved in the postmortem examinations of some of the 26 dolphins that died, said yesterday: "On the face of it, it looks like some sort of mass suicide - but the question is why?