{"id":341915,"date":"2025-12-13T04:41:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T04:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/341915\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T04:41:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T04:41:23","slug":"two-stranded-dolphins-rescued-from-massachusetts-marsh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/341915\/","title":{"rendered":"Two stranded dolphins rescued from Massachusetts marsh"},"content":{"rendered":"

It swims in the family.<\/p>\n

A mother and calf wandered off the beaten path and got stranded in a Massachusetts marsh, forcing an emergency mammal rescue crew to save the wayward dolphin pair<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On Dec. 8, the Wareham Department of Natural Resources responded to a report of two stranded dolphins in the area of Beaverdam Creek off of the Weweantic River, a 17-mile tributary that drains into Buzzards Bay, which directly connects to the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n

When crews arrived, two common dolphins were located alive and active, but partially out of the water stranded in the marsh, according to the Wareham Department of Natural Resources.<\/p>\n

Responding authorities alerted the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) Marine Mammal Stranding Response Team, based in Cape Cod.<\/p>\n

IFAW team members put the dolphins on stretchers and brought them to safety, where they conducted preliminary tests on the wayward dolphins.<\/p>\n

The IFAW team placed the dolphins onto stretchers to bring them to safety. Wareham Department of Natural Resources<\/p>\n

\u201cOur teams were easily able to extract the animals and transport them via our custom-built rescue vehicle,\u201d Stacey Hedman, senior director of communications for IFAW, said.<\/p>\n

The dolphins were weighed; the smaller of the two weighed approximately 90 lbs, and the larger mammal around 150 lbs.<\/p>\n

Upon further analysis, it was revealed that the dolphins were an<\/a> adult female and a socially-dependent juvenile female, a mother and calf pair.<\/p>\n

The small dolphin weighed 90 lbs, with the larger one coming in at roughly 150 lbs. Wareham Department of Natural Resources<\/p>\n

Upon further analysis, it was revealed that the dolphins were an adult female and a socially-dependent juvenile female, a mother and calf pair. IFAW<\/p>\n

According to Hedman, IFAW had some concerns over the mother\u2019s decreased responsiveness and abnormal blood work, though it was deemed the pair was healthy enough to release back into the ocean at West Dennis Beach in Dennis, Mass.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBy releasing them into an area with many other dolphins around, this would hopefully increase their chances of socialization and survival. Both animals have satellite tags that are still successfully tracking,\u201d Hedman said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It swims in the family. A mother and calf wandered off the beaten path and got stranded in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[62896,49,48,10390,3336,149408,66,886,323],"class_list":["post-341915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-animal-rescue","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-dolphins","tag-massachusetts","tag-rescues","tag-science","tag-us-news","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}