“This mass stranding comes toward the end of an unprecedented summer for our team due to the sheer number of dolphin strandings. Since the end of June, the team has responded to 175 live stranded dolphins, which is over 2.5 times our annual average,” Kasper said.

This summer on Cape Cod has been a record breaking one for the International Fund for Animal Welfare which oversees the rescue of stranded dolphins, including 11 bottlenose dolphins first discovered in muddy flats in Brewster Monday,

The British Divers Marine Life Rescue charity issues guidance for what do on finding a beached mammal.

Monday saw the largest bottlenose dolphin mass stranding ever in the Northeast region. The post ‘Unprecedented’ number of bottlenose dolphins stranded on Cape appeared first on Boston.com.

Dolphins stranded twice in as many days on Cape Cod. Rescuers say this summer has seen more than double the average number of dolphin strandings.