Laryngeal Snaring by Ingested Fishing Net in a Common Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) Off the Israeli Shoreline.
Weizmann Institute of Science, PO Box 12, Rehovot 76100, Israel.
Journal Article: Journal of wildlife diseases (impact factor: 1.37). 08/2009; 45(3):834-8.
Abstract
We report an unusual snaring of the larynx in an adult, female common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus). The dolphin was observed swimming and diving in Haifa Port, Israel, but was found dead the next day, 60 km south, on the coast. Postmortem examination revealed stranded-cordage, nylon filaments wrapped around the larynx, cutting through the soft tissue, and extending down into the forestomach, where a large mass of netting was found. The cachectic state of the dolphin and the subacute to chronic, hyper-plastic response of soft tissue surrounding the filaments lodged around the larynx, suggest a prolonged period of starvation, which led to the final weakness and wasting of the dolphin.
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Keywords
cachectic state
chronic
dead
female common bottlenose dolphin
filaments lodged
final weakness
Haifa Port
large mass
larynx
nylon filaments
soft tissue
subacute
unusual snaring
