{"id":643878,"date":"2026-05-15T02:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T02:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/643878\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T02:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T02:54:08","slug":"dolphins-washed-ashore-in-portugal-due-to-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/643878\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolphins washed ashore in Portugal due to pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bottlenose dolphin, a majestic marine mammal, is listed as &#8220;critically endangered&#8221; in the <a href=\"https:\/\/lvinvertebrados.uac.pt\/docs\/Livro-Vermelho-dos-Invertebrados-de-Portugal-Continental.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Red Book of Mammals of Continental Portugal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to a note about that scientific study, based on samples from bottlenose dolphins stranded in Portugal between 2005 and 2013, the contaminants accumulate in the animals&#8217; tissues and degrade slowly in the marine environment, posing potential health risks to the dolphins.<\/p>\n<p>The conclusions indicate that adult males exhibit higher pollutant concentrations than adult females.<\/p>\n<p>Ana Sofia Tavares, who works on the team with biologists S\u00edlvia Monteiro and Catarina Eira, explains that mothers transfer these compounds to their offspring during gestation and then during breastfeeding.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis process is particularly worrying, since the young and younger animals receive high loads of pollutants at a stage when their immune and metabolic systems are still underdeveloped, making them more vulnerable to the harmful effects of these substances,\u201d they emphasise.<\/p>\n<p>The research team also notes that the dolphin population \u201cstill faces threats such as accidental capture in fishing nets and the loss of genetic diversity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The bottlenose dolphin, a majestic marine mammal, is listed as &#8220;critically endangered&#8221; in the Red Book of Mammals&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":["post-643878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}