<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/b0e72279-e9e2-4112-bca6-5982bc4f396e/2EB9CBD7-D9BA-4991-B8DC-B6F713B456C6/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.newscientist.com/blog/environment/2008/09/dolphin-serial-killers.html" href="http://www.newscientist.com/blog/environment/2008/09/dolphin-serial-killers.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.newscientist.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/blog/environment/2008/09/dolphin-serial-killers.html"><DIV><A href="http://www.newscientist.com/blog/environment/uploaded_images/Rakemarks-758918.JPG"><IMG border="0" alt="" src="http://www.newscientist.com/blog/environment/uploaded_images/Rakemarks-758882.JPG" /></A>Scientists who autopsy cetaceans that wash up dead on British beaches have come to a grim conclusion: some species are being killed by bottlenose dolphins.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/blog/environment/2008/09/dolphin-serial-killers.html"><DIV>Dead porpoises (and other cetaceans) turn up regularly on beaches around Britain. According to a <A href="http://www.defra.gov.uk/wildlife-countryside/resprog/findings/ukcsip-ar2007.pdf">Defra report last year</A> (pdf), the cause of death of 15 out of 56 porpoise bodies found - the majority - was "physical trauma (bottlenose dolphin attack)". The photo above shows the rake marks on a harbour porpoise caused by a bottlenose dolphin.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/blog/environment/2008/09/dolphin-serial-killers.html"><DIV>The killings were first reported from the north-east coast of Scotland, then off the coast of Wales, and this week the body of a Risso's dolphin was found further south still, in Cornwall. The Risso's dolphin (see photo below) was said to have been <A href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/09/03/eadolphin103.xml">killed over food shortages</A> and dolphins were described as being <A href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1051936/Surf-wars-Dolphins-hungry-theyre-turning-British-seas.html">so hungry they are turning on each other</A>.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2EB9CBD7-D9BA-4991-B8DC-B6F713B456C6/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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