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Outrage Over Tourists Posing with Dying Dolphin
Outrage Over Tourists Posing with Dying Dolphin
Nov 2, 2024 4:41 AM

Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) underwater. (Tom Brakefield/Thinkstock)

Taking pictures of the local flora and fauna while on vacation can be a good way to remember the trip, but a group of tourists in China went too far when they saw a dolphin in shallow water.

An injured dolphin died off the coast of the Hainan Province in southern China after a group of tourists repeatedly hoisted it out of the water to take pictures with it.

According to the Shanghai Daily, an English-language newspaper in China, the dolphin died due to excessive bleeding from the tail, possibly because of colliding with a fishing boat.

Pictures of the young men posing with the injured dolphin and flexing their muscles sparked a strong reaction among Chinese netizens, according to CNN. Internet writer @Jiangxiangsiyi wrote, "China is now filled with people lacking more values, ignorance, and decreasing civility of the citizens."

Another user on China's Twitter-like social media service Sina Weibo posted that "those people in the pictures are worse than pigs," reported AFP.

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