DOLPHIN DEATH Stupid. Selfish. Selfies.

Posted on 02/23/2016 | About Buenos Aires, Argentina

Tourists on a beach in Buenos Aires are being condemned by the public as well as animal rights groups. They posted selfies of themselves passing around a dolphin.  The dolphin species is vulnerable to extinction and it is said that the animal in the incident died from being out of the water.

Franciscan dolphins are small mammals that live exclusively in Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil.Fundación Vida Silvestre is an arm of The World Wildlife Foundation. They have posted footage of tourists passing around one of two tiny dolphins taken from the water in Santa Teresita.The English translation of the video says, "One of them ended up dying. Like other dolphins, they cannot stay long out of the water because its thick skin provides internal heat, quickly causing dehydration and death."The Argentine newspaper El Clarin reported that Fundación Mundo Marino (translated to World Marine Foundation) made a statement that the dolphin may have already been dead when the tourists found it.On the YouTube video taken when the mammal was being passed around, a woman is heard saying, "We have to put it back in the water!" and a man says "It's dead! It's dead!"And, even supposing it was dead – does tossing around a dead dolphin like a beach ball make this disgusting scene any better?