MANGALURU: The carcass of a humpback dolphin washed ashore at Tannirbhavi beach on Friday. It is learnt that labourers engaged in Blue Flag Beach work and beach staff noticed the dolphin near Fathima beach. Following this, the carcass was pulled ashore using a rope.
K Padmanabha Pannikar, coordinator of Yojaka (India) Ltd, said the forest department, local police station and the coastal security police were informed. Members of Reef Watch Marine Conservation rushed to the spot and conducted a postmortem, following which the dolphin was buried slightly away from the beach, he said.
