Expert: Local dolphin populations could die off
PHOTO PROVIDED BY MOTE MARINE LABORATORY
Besides being illegal to feed a wild dolphin, these boaters are feeding "Beggar," a local dolphin that became inordinately dependent upon boaters feeding him. Beggar died last year.
ENGLEWOOD — Kindness can kill dolphins.
“Beggar,” a dolphin known to boaters between the Albee Road and Blackburn Point Road bridges in Venice — died in September from its dependence on the kindness of humans.